Yuehai dialects

Yuehai
	粵海方言
Native to	China
Region	Pearl River Delta, Guangdong
Native speakers	13 million? (1998)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Chinese Yue Yuehai; ; ;
Dialects	Guangfu; Sanyi; Zhongshan; Guan-Bao;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	(none)
Glottolog	yueh1236[2]
Linguasphere	79-AAA-ma
	The four Yuehai dialects, at right, are marked with a 'Y'

Yuehai (粵海方言) is the main branch of Yue Chinese, spoken in the Pearl River Delta of the province of Guangdong, as well as Hong Kong and Macau. It is commonly called Cantonese, though that name is more precisely applied to the Guangzhou dialect of Yuehai.

Dialects

Yuehai is divided into four principal dialects, each of which contains various subdialects. Cantonese is the prestige form.

Guangfu dialects
- Guangzhou dialect
- Hong Kong-Macau dialects
- Xiguan dialect
- Wuzhou dialect
- Tanka dialect
Nan-Pan-Shun/Sanyi dialects (Sam yap)
- Nanhai dialect
- Jiujiang dialect
- Xiqiao dialect
- Shunde dialect
Zhongshan dialect
- Shiqi dialect
- Sanjiao dialect
Guan-Bao dialect
- Dongguan dialect
- Bao'an dialect (Waitau)

↑ "Guangfu" (apparently = all of Yuehai) in Olson, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yuehai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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