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| Selected languages: | Cantonese |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Cantonese (or Yue) belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family |
| The languages has | 42 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [m] [ŋ] [n] [l] [j] [w] [f] [s] [h] [p] [pʰ] [t] [tʰ] [k] [kʰ] [tsː] [tsʰ] [kʷ] [kʷʰ] [ʔ] [yː] [iː] [uː] [e] [ɛː] [œː] [ɵ] [äː] [ɐ] [o] [ɔː] [ei] [ɛu] [iu] [äi] [äu] [o̞u] [uy] [ɐi] [ɐu] [ɔy] [ɵy] |
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| Sources: | Zee, Eric (1999), "Chinese (Hong Kong Cantonese)", Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, |