yuehai, zhongshan, dialect, redirects, here, dialect, chinese, zhongshan, yuehai, chinese, 粵海, jyutping, jyut6, hoi2, pinyin, yuèhǎi, main, branch, chinese, spoken, pearl, river, delta, province, guangdong, well, hong, kong, macau, commonly, called, cantonese,. Zhongshan dialect redirects here For the dialect of Min Chinese see Zhongshan Min Yuehai Chinese 粵海 Jyutping jyut6 hoi2 pinyin Yuehǎi 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 topolect of Yuehai Yuehai粵海Native toChinaRegionPearl River Delta GuangdongNative speakers 13 million cited 1998 1 Language familySino Tibetan SiniticChineseYueYuehaiDialectsGuangfu Sanyi Xiangshan GuanbaoLanguage codesISO 639 3None mis Glottologyueh1236Linguasphere79 AAA maThe four main Yuehai languages at right are shaded in pinkTopolects editThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed December 2018 Learn how and when to remove this message Yuehai is divided into four principal dialects each of which contains various subdialects Cantonese is the prestige form Guangfu dialects Guangzhou dialect Hong Kong dialect Macau dialect Xiguan dialect Wuzhou dialect Tanka dialect Sanyi Nanpanshun dialects Nanhai dialect Jiujiang dialect Xiqiao dialect Shunde dialect Xiangshan dialect Shiqi dialect Sanjiao dialect Guanbao dialect Dongguan dialect Bao an dialect Waitau References edit Guangfu apparently all of Yuehai in Olson An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China nbsp This Sino Tibetan languages related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Yuehai Yue amp oldid 1113365657, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
