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and workers came to Hong Kong from the city of Canton, the main centre of Cantonese, especially in the wake of the outbreak of the Taiping Rebellion in Canton in 1850 and then the Second Opium War (1856-1860). Thus, Cantonese became the dominant spoken language in Hong Kong. The extensive migration from mainland Cantonese-speaking areas to Hong Kong continued up until 1949, when the Communists took over mainland China.

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