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Cantonese, like mandarin, is a tonal language.

The examples in the article miss the tones. It's like writing pinyin without tones (even with tones it's much less clear than using characters).

This means that understanding a sentence requires a good knowledge of the oral language and to read it all to extract the meaning from the overall context.

That seems to be the point: Software tools will be completely lost.




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