Cantonese language

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.

British phonetician (1881–1967)

dialect native to Hong Kong

German missionary

character encoding

Chinese dialect spoken on the Dapeng Peninsula

Cantonese written tradition

language

phonology of the Cantonese language

Chinese linguist