Is there any difference between Vietnamese and Cantonese?
Yes, there are two different languages: Vietnamese and Cantonese. \x0d\ 1。 Vietnamese: Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam. It belongs to the Mon-Khmer language family of South Asian language family. Characters are based on Latin letters. Mainly distributed in the coastal plains of Vietnam, it is a place where the Vietnamese (also known as the Jing nationality) live together. There are more than 90 million users. There are about 10000 people in China, and dongxing city, Guangxi, is inhabited by Jing people. \x0d\ The languages of most countries in Southeast Asia are greatly influenced by Indian culture, but Vietnamese, like Korean and Japanese, has been deeply influenced by Chinese character culture since ancient times. Under the rule of China from 1 century to1century, Vietnamese introduced a huge vocabulary of Chinese characters, and its pronunciation (Chinese-Vietnamese pronunciation) was similar to that of ancient Chinese, but its grammar inherited a lot of features of Khmer. Although it doesn't have the same tense and verb changes as Chinese, it is also tonal language, but the word order is just the opposite of Chinese, and the situation is similar to Thai. The Vietnamese family affiliation has not yet been determined. At present, it is generally accepted that it belongs to the Monkhmer family of South Asian language family, such as Schmidt's judgment that Vietnamese and Monkhmer have a large number of basic words with the same grammatical structure, and some China scholars have found that Vietnamese and Wa are homologous from the bottom of Vietnamese. Other linguists think Vietnamese is an isolated language. Due to the controversy over the language family of Vietnamese, it is temporarily considered as a mixed language of Sino-Tibetan language family, Zhuang-Dong language family and South Asian language family. \x0d\2。 Cantonese: Cantonese is also called Cantonese and Guangfu dialect, commonly known as vernacular Chinese, and is called Tang dialect overseas. It is a kind of tonal language of Sino-Tibetan language family, and it is also the mother tongue of Guangfu people of Han nationality. \x0d\ Cantonese originated from the elegant characters in the ancient Central Plains, and has a complete set of nine tones and six tones, which perfectly retains the characteristics of ancient Chinese and is also the most complete language to retain Middle Chinese. In academic circles, apart from Mandarin, it is the only China language that has independent research in foreign universities. Today, Wu Tong dialect and other Chinese dialects still retain many ancient Chinese pronunciations of Chinese characters in Cantonese. \x0d\ Cantonese is a kind of tonal language of Sino-Tibetan Chinese family, which originated in the northern Central Plains, spread to Guangdong and Guangxi during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and merged with the local ancient Vietnamese. At the same time, it is the dominant language in Hong Kong and Macao. It is widely used in Chinese communities in China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hongkong, Macau, Southeast Asia, North America, Britain and Australia, with a global total of about 654.38+0.2 billion. Its name comes from the "Nanyue State" in the ancient Lingnan area of China (Hanshu as "Nanyue State"), which is a general term. Folks are also called "vernacular" and "cantonese", and in Chinatown in the United States it is called "Tang dialect" The two common names "Guangfu dialect" and "provincial dialect" specifically refer to Cantonese in old guangzhou fu (now Guangzhou and its surrounding Nanfanshun area), Hong Kong, Macao, Wuzhou and Hezhou, which are smaller than the concept of "vernacular" and are generally called "Cantonese".