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Originally posted by GT40FIED
Hey dabouncer (sorry man...don't know your name )...you speak Canto, right? What would you say is more widely spoken, Mandarin or Cantonese? I know Canto is spoken in HK and Taiwan and the Canton province, but there's a whole lot more of China than just that and I assume the speak Mandarin.
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It's Gary, nice to meet you
. Yeah, I speak canto. And mandarin speakers outnumber canto speakers..I would say at least 5:1.
Actually, Taiwanese speak a slightly modified version of mandarin, but you're definitely right on Canton province. The dialect is named after it after all
