廣東話
Cantonese
- Global speakers: 73,538,610
- Glottocode: cant1236
- ISO 639-3: yue
Alongside the related variety Taishanese, Cantonese was one of the first Chinese languages to be widely spoken in New York City, decades before Mandarin became dominant following large-scale immigration from Taiwan and Chinese provinces beyond the southeast. Through at least the 1980s, the Cantonese varieties of China's Guangdong (Canton) province and Hong Kong remained the most common language in Manhattan's Chinatown, but most Cantonese speakers today live in the new Chinatowns of Sunset Park, Bensonhurst, Sheepshead Bay, and beyond in Brooklyn. Cantonese remains a major language throughout the metropolitan area, but Mandarin and other varieties have become increasingly important in all the city's Chinatowns, particularly in Queens, reflecting language policies in China itself and a global shift in the composition of the Chinese diaspora.
Sites
NYC neighborhoods or towns in the metro region where the language community has a significant site, marked by a point on the map:
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens
Bergen
Staten Island
Brooklyn