cuz all chinese is banana, they no can speak man- da- rin

mandarin is language
the rest like hokkien,cantonese consider as dialect .

oi leng zai, yat gor wan tan min, sai, tapao

How do u know?

Relation to Classical Chinese

Since the pronunciation of all modern varieties of Chinese are different from Old Chinese or Middle Chinese, characters that once rhymed in poetry may no longer do so today. Some linguists agree to some extent that Cantonese is closer to classical Chinese in its pronunciation and some grammar.[8] Many poems that don't rhyme in Mandarin, do so in Cantonese.[8] Cantonese retains a flavour of archaic and ancient Chinese and this has been used to study ancient Chinese culture.[8]

Eh.. Wikipedia has everything. From cake recipe>elements. We should ban it. IMBA source of info.

Yes but what people say is that Cantonese is a more conservative language, it preserves more of the phonology of Classical Chinese (I don't know about the grammar) than Mandarin does.

For example, Cantonese preserves the original 4 Classical Chinese tones, even splitting Classical Chinese Tones 1, 2, 3 into two tones each (Yin and Yang), and Tone 4 into 3 tones. Mandarin lost Tone 4 but split Tone 1, so that it still has 4 tones in total. So some of the tones of Classical Chinese won't match up in Mandarin while they will in Cantonese.

Mandarin, unlike most southern Chinese languages, lost the final consonants in Classical Chinese. (Reminds me of how French lost the final syllable off most Latin words while other Romance languages keep them to some degree). So there are many more homophones in Mandarin that would really diverge from the original pronunciation of the poem. Also, Mandarin, like French, has palatized many initial consonants, g --> j, k --> chi, s --> sh, and simplified others (ng, m --> w), plus Mandarin does the Basque/Castilian initial f --> h shift, again changing the sound relative to Classical Chinese.

oh...wikipedia....

cantonese is spoken more in HK compare with mainland china?

if not mistaken ipohans also speak well in cantonese.

hm how abt sdk sabah ? sdk ppls cantonese can be understand by ipoh ppls too.

sdk ppls called tai fan. hehe. kuay teow from hokkien ?

Im from Ipoh and dont know how to speak Cantonese  speak mandarin only