Cantonese, also known as Yuet Yu (in cantonese pronunciation) or Yue Yu (in Mandarin pronunciation), is a primary branch of Chinese. The name "Cantonese" is also commonly used in a narrower sense for Standard Cantonese, which is the prestige dialect of Cantonese in the broader sense.

 

 

The issue of whether Cantonese in the broader sense (Yue) should be regarded as a language in its own right or as a dialect of a Chinese language depends on conceptions of what a language is. Like the other primary branches of Chinese, Cantonese is considered to be a dialect of a single Chinese language for ethnic and cultural reasons, but is also considered a language in its own right because it is mutually unintelligible with other varieties of Chinese.

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It is believed that the areas with the most number of cantonese speakers are Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macau, with minorities world wide, for example, Southeast Asia, Canada and the United States. It is hard to say the exact numbers of cantonese speakers because of a lack of Census data.

 

 

 

 

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