There are lot of chinese living in the United Kingdom, Cantonese is a language that is spoken by 70 million people, while mandarin which is also known as putonghua is spoken by 874 million people.Cantonese is spoken in the southern part of china and mandarin is spoken in mostly in the north and also serves as the standard language for the country.They first relocated to UK in 1960s and 70s, and most of the immigrants were from Hong Kong, formerly, they dominated cardiff, liverpool, and bristol due to the problem in their country, which is the requisition of land for development purposes and an influx of refugees from the peoples republic of China during the cultural revolution, and high rate of employment in the country at that time.Most of the immigrants came to study . There are about 300,000 Chinese in the Uk, most of them can be seen in birmigham, liverpool, london, manchester and Newcastle. In london cantonese was the eleventh most widely spoken language in a 2000 survey of school children, with the highest proportion living in hackey, southwark,lambeth and greenwich. They have interesting festivals which entertains other community groups like the chinese new year and the dragon boat festival. these festivals also helps in reviving the culture and language of the people.Funny enough chinese writing system is built around different variety of characters which have no relation to the spoken word.
google(2011)pics of chinese people. www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual
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