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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
As a fluent Cantonese speaker it's definitely at the bottom of your list. It's prob a dying language. Cantonese classes at chinese school where my kids attend have been halved in the past 6 years.
Plus it might be the only language where a portion of the speaking and writing of it uses different words. Also with 8 tones it's way harder to speak it fluently.
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Fair point. If I was picking Chinese for my kids (as a non-Chinese person) I would absolutely have had them learn Mandarin not Cantonese or any other version. Could probably just take it off or move it to the bottom group (which has tons of other languages of similar utility that I didn't list).