Does Hong Kong speak Mandarin or Cantonese?
Hong Kong’s recent census report states that Mandarin is the second language most spoken on the island following Cantonese. Cantonese remains dominant with 96\% percent. As for Mandarin, 48\% of Hong Kong’s population can speak it, compared to 46\% of population that can speak English.
What is the official language of Hong Kong?
Chinese
English
Hong Kong/Official languages
Which came first Cantonese or Mandarin?
Cantonese and Mandarin: which came first? Cantonese is believed to have originated after the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220AD, when long periods of war caused northern Chinese to flee south, taking their ancient language with them. Mandarin was documented much later in the Yuan Dynasty in 14th century China.
Are Mandarin and Cantonese the same language?
Mandarin is the official state language of China and the most widely spoken Chinese dialect in the country. Mandarin is spoken widely in Singapore and Taiwan. Cantonese, however, is spoken largely in Hong Kong, as well as in Macau and the Guangdong province, including Guangzhou.
Is Cantonese the official language of Hong Kong?
As others have said before me, the Education Bureau only stipulates that English and Chinese are the official languages in Hong Kong. Legal documents are in Mandarin and or English but any educated speaker of Cantonese can read a document written in Mandarin. Cantonese is a Chinese language.
What is the most common language in Hong Kong?
Native languages of Hong Kong (2016) Languages percent Cantonese (official) 88.9\% English (official) 4.3\% Mandarin 1.9\% Other Chinese varieties 3.1\%
What is Hong Kong’s official verbal Chinese language?
The law says that “Chinese and English” are Hong Kong’s official languages, but there is no rule about verbal language, such as Cantonese. If, however, as the Education Bureau claims, Cantonese is just a “dialect” and “not an official language,” what is Hong Kong’s official verbal Chinese language?
How much Mandarin is spoken in Hong Kong?
When Hong Kong was handed back from the UK to China in 1997, only a quarter of the population spoke any Mandarin. Now, two decades later, that figure has nearly doubled.