Yuehai dialects

Yuehai
粵海方言
Native to China
Region Guangdong
Native speakers
13 million? (1998)[1]
Dialects
Guangfu
Sanyi
Zhongshan
Guan-Bao
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ISO 639-6 (none)
Glottolog yueh1236[2]

The four Yuehai dialects, at right, are marked with a 'Y'

Yuehai (粵海方言) is the main branch of Yue Chinese, spoken in Guangdong province, Hong Kong, Macau and oversea Chinese communities. It is commonly called Cantonese, though that name is more precisely applied to the Guangfu dialect of Yuehai.

Dialects

Yuehai is divided into four principal dialects, each of which contains various subdialects. Cantonese is the prestige form.


References

  1. "Guangfu" (apparently = all of Yuehai) in Olson, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yuehai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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