Yue Chinese

E130821

Yue Chinese is a major branch of the Chinese language family, best known internationally through its prominent variety Cantonese spoken in southern China and among overseas Chinese communities.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Yue Chinese canonical 45
Yue Chinese (Cantonese) 1
Yue Chinese varieties 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese language variety ⓘ
Sinitic language ⓘ
language branch ⓘ
glottocode yuec1235 ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature aspect markers similar to other Chinese varieties ⓘ
hasLexicalFeature significant vocabulary differences from Mandarin ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature multiple tone categories ⓘ
preservation of final stop consonants ⓘ
rich tone system ⓘ
voiceless and voiced stop distinctions in some varieties ⓘ
hasProminentVariety Cantonese ⓘ
hasRomanization Guangdong Romanization ⓘ
Jyutping ⓘ
Yale Romanization of Cantonese ⓘ
linked to: Yale Cantonese
hasVariety Gao-Yang Yue ⓘ
Guangzhou Cantonese ⓘ
linked to: Cantonese

Guinan Yue ⓘ
Hong Kong Cantonese ⓘ
linked to: Cantonese

Qin-Lian Yue ⓘ
linked to: Gao-Yang Yue

Siyi Yue ⓘ
Standard Cantonese ⓘ
linked to: Cantonese

Taishanese ⓘ
Wuyi Yue ⓘ
Yongxun Yue ⓘ
linked to: Gao-Yang Yue
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Yue varieties ⓘ
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith Mandarin Chinese ⓘ
Min Chinese ⓘ
Wu Chinese ⓘ
ISO639-3 yue ⓘ
languageBranch Sinitic ⓘ
linked to: Chinese language
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
notableCenter Guangzhou ⓘ
Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to: Hong Kong, China
regionOfOrigin southern China ⓘ
spokenIn Australia ⓘ
Guangdong Province ⓘ
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region ⓘ
linked to: Guangxi Province

Hainan Province ⓘ
linked to: Hainan

Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to: Hong Kong, China

Macau ⓘ
North America ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ
Western Europe ⓘ
subclassOf Chinese language ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ
usedBy overseas Chinese communities ⓘ
writingSystem Chinese characters ⓘ
Simplified Chinese characters ⓘ
Traditional Chinese characters ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (47)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cantonese → subgroup → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Cantonese → isPartOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Hakka → closelyRelatedTo → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Lingnan → language → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Cantonese opera → usesLanguage → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Southern China → hasLanguageGroup → Yue Chinese ⓘ
subject linked to: southern China
Northern Mandarin → contrastedWith → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Taishanese → subclassOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Xinan Guanhua → contrastWith → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Pinghua → distinctFrom → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Longchuan Hakka → sharesFeatureWith → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Hengzhou dialect group → differsFrom → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Kwang-chou → dialectRegion → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Taishan City → dialectGroup → Yue Chinese ⓘ
subject linked to: Taishan city
Shenzhen dialect → subfamily → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Toisanese → languageFamily → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Toisanese → subgroupOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Toisanese → diasporaVarietyOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Hoisanese → subclassOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Sze Yup region → languageFamily → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Toishan dialect → subclassOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Toishan dialect → dialectOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Wuming Zhuang → influencedBy → Yue Chinese varieties ⓘ
linked to: Yue Chinese
Kaiping → hasDialect → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Siyi Yue → subclassOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Gao-Yang Yue → subclassOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Gao-Yang Yue → languageGroup → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Guinan Yue → subclassOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Wuyi Yue → subclassOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Wuyi Yue → languageGroup → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Cantonese people → languageFamily → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Pinghua language → isDistinctFrom → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Pinghua language → hasInfluenceFrom → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Hakka language → closelyRelatedTo → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Northern Zhuang → influencedBy → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Kong Mun → dialectGroup → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Min → distinctFrom → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Changdu Gan → differsFrom → Yue Chinese (Cantonese) ⓘ
linked to: Yue Chinese