Yuehai Yue
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Yuehai dialects
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| Yuehai | |
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| 粵海 | |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Pearl River Delta, Guangdong |
Native speakers | (13 million? cited 1998)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | yueh1236 |
| Linguasphere | 79-AAA-ma |
 The four main Yuehai languages, at right, are shaded in pink | |
Yuehai (
Guangzhou topolect
of Yuehai.
Topolects
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Yuehai is divided into four principal dialects, each of which contains various subdialects. Cantonese is the prestige form.
- Guangfu dialects
- Sanyi / Nanpanshun dialects
- Xiangshan dialect
- Guanbao dialect
- Dongguan dialect
- Bao'an dialect(Waitau)
References
- ^ "Guangfu" (apparently = all of Yuehai) in Olson, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China
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forms
- Standard Chinese
- Sichuanese
- Taiwanese
- Philippine
- Malaysian
- Singaporean
- Cantonese
- Hokkien
- Hakka
- Historical
- Old National
- Cantonese
- Northern Wu
- Mandarin
- Literary and colloquial readings
Input
- Biaoxingma
- Boshiamy
- Cangjie
- CKC
- Dayi
- Pinyin
- Stroke count
- Wubi (Wang Ma)
- ZhengMa
forms
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- Chinese characters
- Simplified
- Traditional
- Punctuation
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