cantophone

Etymology

From Canto + -phone.

cantophone means Cantonese-speaking. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.

adj

Cantonese-speaking.“The term “Guangzhou film” cannot operate independently outside Hong Kong and its colonial dimension. Tracking “Guangzhou film,” Kenny K. K. Ng presents a compelling study on Cantophone cinema as a site of cultural and linguistic struggle.”

noun

A person who speaks Cantonese.“Akin to Shu-mei Shih's concept of the Sinophone, the Hong Kong Cantophone, too, defines itself in opposition to China's Mandarin culture by emphasizing linguistic difference rather than ethnic sameness, postcolonial hybridity rather than ethnonational solidarity.”