Cantonese, a southern Chinese dialect with a long history but an uncertain future in China, is being championed around the world in some surprising ways and some unlikely places. At Palacky University ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Officials at the City College of San Francisco announced the school would offer new Cantonese-language certificates, preserving one of the nation's few programs teaching the language.

Our native language can be a touchpoint to our cultural identity. To Jessica Shao, it’s much more than that. When I tell people that I speak Cantonese, I’m often asked, “Is that Chinese?” or “Is that ...

Albert Wong had spent his whole life trying —and failing — to type Cantonese characters on a computer. But now, thanks to time allowed by Google’s 20-percent projects, some terrific teamwork and a ...

Hundreds of people staged a peaceful but loud protest in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province Sunday over fears that Cantonese dialect is being threatened. At 5 pm Sunday, at least 1,000 people - mainly in ...

Google Assistant’s expansion story wouldn’t be as impressive without the support for regional dialects and Actions (third-party apps for the virtual helper). Bolstering its presence in regions around ...

A video clip in which a little girl from Hong Kong fluently chanting ancient poems in local dialect on the streets of Xi’an city, in Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, has gone viral online, with ...

HONG KONG — I had always presumed that speaking to your child in your native tongue was the most natural thing in the world. Apparently not everyone thinks so. When we held a birthday party for our ...

BEIJING — Hundreds in China’s southern export hub of Guangdong scuffled with police at a weekend protest to support the local Cantonese dialect, a witness said, with a small group of reporters and ...