Canto
Pronunciations
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/ˈkæn.toʊ/
Pronunciation notes
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Noun
The Cantonese language.
Usage- Informal
- Uncountable
- Related words
- Examples
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More examples (1)
I think most people born here can’t speak it, but they understand it. It’s so strange that my Chinese friends can speak Canto, and my Japanese friends can speak their language, but it doesn’t work that way for us here
In reaction to when the Chinese girls would speak Canto or Mando around us, we created a language – we came up with a language.
But Mandarin is the bigger language anyway, not many other parts of China speak Canto.