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Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly romanized as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. Although Cantonese specifically refers to the prestige variety in linguistics, the term is often used more broadly to describe the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese, including varieties such as Taishanese, which have limited mutual intelligibility with Cantonese.
Daniel Jones
British phonetician (1881–1967)
Hong Kong Cantonese
dialect native to Hong Kong

Ernst Johann Eitel
German missionary
HKSCS
character encoding
Dapeng dialect
Chinese dialect spoken on the Dapeng Peninsula
written Cantonese
Cantonese written tradition
Weitou dialect
language
Cantonese phonology
phonology of the Cantonese language

Wong Shik Ling
Chinese linguist