Cantonese: good news and bad news
The good news is that it's a language.
The bad news is that you can't speak it.
"China’s version of TikTok suspends users for speaking Cantonese: ByteDance’s short video app Douyin has been urging live streamers to switch to the country’s official language", Abacus via SCMP (4/3/20)
I've been hearing similar reports concerning the use of Cantonese on other social media: it is definitely discouraged or even forbidden. At least, though, the Abacus article does not miscall Cantonese a dialect, but affords it the dignity of referring to it as a language.
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