cantonese standard
Also known as Standard Cantonese, Yue, Yüeh, Yue-Yu, Yue-Yuu, Cantonese language, Cantonese dialect
dialetto standard del cinese cantonese
AI overview
Cantonese is a major Chinese language variety that originated in Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta region, belonging to the broader Yue Chinese subgroup within the Sino-Tibetan language family. While linguistically Cantonese refers specifically to the prestige form of this language, the term is commonly used more broadly to encompass related Yue varieties like Taishanese, though these related forms have limited mutual intelligibility with standard Cantonese.
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Key facts
- Language.name
- Cantonese
- Language.nativename
- / Gwóngdūngwá / Gwóngjāuwá
- Language.imagescale
- 0.7
- Language.imagecaption
- written in traditional Chinese (left) and simplified Chinese (right) characters
- Language.states
- Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and overseas communities
- Language.region
- Guangdong, eastern Guangxi
- Language.familycolor
- Sino-Tibetan
- Language.fam2
- Sinitic
- Language.fam3
- Chinese
- Language.fam4
- Yue
- Language.fam5
- Yuehai
- Language.ancestor
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan