Gao-Yang Yue

Gao-Yang dialect
高陽方言
Native to	Southern China
Native speakers	5.4 million (1998)^[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Yue Gao-Yang dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	`goya`
Glottolog	`gaol1235`^[2]
Gao-Yang is red, in the middle of the Yue area.

Gao-Yang, or Gao-Lei, is one of four principal dialects of Yue (Cantonese). It is spoken in and around Maoming and Yangjiang in southwestern Guangdong.

The name derives from its two subdialects, Gaozhou and Yangjiang.

References

↑ Olson, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gaolei". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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