Yue Chinese

E130821
Chinese language variety Sinitic language language branch

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.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Yue Chinese canonical 15

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 Cantonese ⓘ
surface form: Yale Romanization of Cantonese
hasVariety Gao-Yang Yue ⓘ
Cantonese ⓘ
surface form: Guangzhou Cantonese

Guinan Yue ⓘ
Cantonese ⓘ
surface form: Hong Kong Cantonese

Gao-Yang Yue ⓘ
surface form: Qin-Lian Yue

Siyi Yue ⓘ
Cantonese ⓘ
surface form: Standard Cantonese

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

Hainan ⓘ
surface form: Hainan Province

Hong Kong, China ⓘ
surface form: Hong Kong

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 ⓘ

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 surface form: Southern China
Xiang Chinese → borderingLanguageVariety → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Northern Mandarin → contrastedWith → Yue Chinese ⓘ
Taishanese → subclassOf → Yue Chinese ⓘ
East Asian languages → includesLanguage → 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 ⓘ