Are "Cantonese people" from Guangzhou? [closed]

I saw a documentary that seemed pretty legitimate, but at one point they referred to "Cantonese people" and it confused me.

It was about modern times (~2018) so it definitely wasn't a historical reference.

I know Guangzhou used to be called Canton, but I thought "Cantonese" was only used to refer to the Cantonese language which is spoken by many people from Taiwan/Hong Kong.

If someone is from Guangzhou, are they "Cantonese"?

And if someone is "Cantonese" does it mean that they are from Guangzhou?

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Best Answer

Not quite. It means that they are from the Guangdong (from which the word Canton is derived) province. Cantonese food, language, people: the word Cantonese has many uses, and is not limited to the language.

Also, note that the Cantonese language is not even a decimal point in the language stats in Taiwan. The three Chinese languages spoken there are Mandarin, Minnan (Hokkien) and Hakka.

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Is China banning Cantonese?

Protests have erupted in Hong Kong and Guangzhou over a plan by Guangzhou officials to ban Cantonese \u2013 the language of southern China \u2013 from prime-time television. Some Cantonese speakers say the move is an attack against their culture.

Is Cantonese still spoken in Guangzhou?

Cantonese is the mother tongue for most people in both Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Putonghua is the second major mother tongue in Guangzhou.

Are people from Guangzhou Cantonese?

People of Guangzhou. Guangzhou is one of the most densely inhabited areas in China; most of its residents live in the central districts of the city. The local people, called Cantonese, speak the Cantonese language (Yueyu), which is distinctly different from the Mandarin spoken by most Chinese.

Do they still speak Cantonese in Guangdong?

Cantonese remains today as a majority language in Guangdong and Guangxi, despite the increasing influence of Mandarin. Taishanese people may also be considered Cantonese but speak a distinct variety of Yue Chinese, Taishanese.

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