Wiktionary:About Chinese/Cantonese/Dongguan

Dongguan Cantonese (Chinese: ) is a language of the branch of Chinese, currently called Category:Cantonese language on Wiktionary.

Its representative locality is.

Romanization
For the romanization, Jyutping++ is adopted as below. (The official Jyutping++ does not include Dongguan.)

Initials
Under the current analysis, Dongguan Cantonese has 19 initials, including the zero-initial.

Finals
Under the current analysis, Dongguan Cantonese has 40 finals, including the syllabic.

Tones
Dongguan Cantonese has 9 tones, which are represented by as below. Note that there is no Tone 6.

Tones 0 and 2 are used grammatically to change the meaning of a word. Tone 0 cannot be found in a character intrinsically.

Input format
In the pronunciation section of each entry, under the template, use the   parameter to indicate the pronunciation of the entry in Jyutping++ as described above. Use commas  without spaces to separate alternate readings.

Use  or   to indicate a changed tone.