How to pronounce 外來 in Cantonese (3 out of 13):

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原因很簡單 他說這群人人口少,是外來
The reason is simple, he said, and the people are small, and they're foreigners.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

原因 jyun4 jan1
reason
han2
very
簡單 gan2 daan1
simple
to1
he or him
(used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant)
(used before sb's name for emphasis)
(used as a meaningless mock object)
other
another
syut3
to speak
to say
to explain
to scold
to tell off
a theory (usually in compounds such as 日心说 heliocentric theory)
to criticize
to try to influence someone to do something
to mean
ze5
this
these
(commonly pr. [zhèi] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)
the
here
now
then
kwan4
group
crowd
flock, herd, pack etc
numerous
to join with
to associate with
人人 jan4 jan4
everyone
hau2
mouth
classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)
classifier for bites or mouthfuls
open end
entrance
gate
opening
person
edge or blade of a knife
a crack
KangXi radical 30
siu3
young
junior
young master
used as part of terms for military ranks
si6
is
外來 ngoi6 loi4
foreign
ze2
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...
(after a noun) person involved in ...
-er
-ist
(used after a number or 后hòu [后] or 前qián [前] to refer to sth mentioned previously)
(used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)
(old) (used at the end of a command)
(old) this
a surname
denoting a portion
this
these
yes, yes! (exclamation)
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