Under threat: Cantonese speakers worry about their language’s future | DW News

Although Cantonese is spoken by 80 million Chinese around the world, its influence is waning due to pressure from Beijing to favor Mandarin as the official language in China. But the decline has stirred some people to try to preserve the language, for example, in the US.

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