| Yuehai | |
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| 粵海方言 | |
| Spoken in | People's Republic of China |
| Region | Guangdong |
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Guangfu
Sanyi
Zhongshan
Guan-Bao
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Linguist List | yue-yue |
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The four Yuehai dialects, at right, are marked with a 'Y'
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Yuehai (粵海方言) is the main branch of Yue Chinese, spoken in Guangdong province, Hong Kong, and Macau. It is commonly called Cantonese, though that name is more precisely applied to the Guangfu dialect of Yuehai.
Yuehai is divided into four principal dialects, each of which contains various subdialects. Cantonese is the prestige form.
Guan-Bao is divergent.
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