Chinese languages

取 消 資 格 陳 小 春 : tsoeue siu dzi gaak - tsan siu tsoen : 老 友 看 見 我 也 會 驚 訝 : lou yau hon gin ngo ya wui ging nga : 平 日 杯 酒 不 沾 今 晚 總 喝 不 厭 : ping yat bui dzao bat dzim gam maan dzong hot bat yim : 淺 灰 色 煙 圈 浸 沒 了 我 的 臉 : tsin fui sik yin huen dzam mut liu ngo dik lim : 寧 願 聽 舊 笑 話 安 慰 可 免 則 免 : ning y...

I think Cantonese has already lost many of the ng- pronunciation in a lot of characters that had them during the Tang dynasty. I think that my dialect, Tai Shan Hua, and perhaps Hakka retain more of the ng- initial from the Tang dynasty than does Cantonese.

Whilst other dialects of Cantonese may have as many as 9 distinctly different tones, such as the Cantonese spoken in GuangXi province, and that of the Guangzhou province. But whereas these tones may be heard with a native ear, a foreign one might have trouble distinguishing these tones from the othe...