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 (1)

Label Occurrences
Yue Chinese canonical 15

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 (15)

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