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Name:
Chinese, Yue
Alternate Names:
Yue Chinese; Yue Dialect Family; Yuè; Cantonese; Yue; Yüeh; Yue; Chinese,Yue
Spoken in:
USA, Malaysia, Nauru, Viet Nam, South Africa, Australia, China, Philippines, Singapore, New Zealand, Brunei, Costa Rica, Canada, Thailand, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Panama, Honduras, Indonesia, Mauritius
Number of speakers:
52,000,000 in China (1984). 498,000 in Macau. Population total all countries: 55,541,660
(Ethnologue)
Code:
yue
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Sino-Tibetan
Parent Language:
Middle Chinese (ltc)
Child Dialects:
Qinlian (yue-qin)
Cantonese; Guǎngzhōu; Canton (yue-can)
Siyi (yue-siy)
Guinan (yue-gui)
Vancouver Cantonese (yue-van)
Toishanese; T'oishan (yue-toi)
Yuehai; Hong Kong Cantonese (yue-yue)
Gaolei (yue-gao)
Map of Chinese, Yue
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