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Canto
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canto cantó cantò
English
Etymology
en Cantonese.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkæn.toʊ/ US,Canada
Noun
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en informal The Cantonese language.
en 2016 Emilie Santos Tumale “James” Challenging the Stigmas: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Filipino American Community College Students University of California Los Angeles 50 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
en 2019 Christina Ho Blaise Angry Anglos and aspirational Asians: everyday multiculturalism in the selective school system in Sydney Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 40 4 10.1080/01596306.2017.1396961 521 In reaction to when the Chinese girls would speak Canto or Mando around us, we created a language – we came up with a language.
en 2022 Zahid Ramzan Mohamed Mughal Emily Walking the cosmopolitan talk: mapping expatriate identities in postcolonial Hong Kong Keele University 62 https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/10378/1/MughalMPhil2022.pdf But Mandarin is the bigger language anyway, not many other parts of China speak Canto. https://web.archive.org/web/20220512014456/https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/10378/1/MughalMPhil2022.pdf 12 May 2022
Related terms
en Cantopop
en Cantophone
Anagrams
en acnot Acton Caton act on acton octan