Native to China ISO 639-6 (none) | Native speakers 13 million? (1998) | |
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Region Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Language family Sino-Tibetan
Chinese
Yue
Yuehai Dialects Guangfu
Sanyi
Zhongshan
Guan-Bao | ||
Yuehai (粵海方言) is the main branch of Yue Chinese, spoken in the Pearl River Delta of the province of Guangdong, as well as Hong Kong and Macau. It is commonly called Cantonese, though that name is more precisely applied to the Guangzhou dialect of Yuehai.
Dialects
Yuehai is divided into four principal dialects, each of which contains various subdialects. Cantonese is the prestige form.
References
Yuehai dialects Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA