Yuehai is the main branch of Yue Chinese, spoken in Guangdong

Guangdong

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 province, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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, and Macau

Macau

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. It is commonly called Cantonese, though that name is more precisely applied to the Guangfu dialect of Yuehai.

Dialects

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

Cantonese

Cantonese is a dialect spoken primarily in south China.Cantonese may also refer to:* Yue Chinese, the Chinese language that includes Cantonese* Cantonese cuisine, the cuisine of Guangdong province...

 is the prestige form

Prestige dialect

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.

• Guangfu dialect
  • Guangzhou dialect
    Cantonese
    Cantonese is a dialect spoken primarily in south China.Cantonese may also refer to:* Yue Chinese, the Chinese language that includes Cantonese* Cantonese cuisine, the cuisine of Guangdong province...
    
    
  • Hong Kong dialect
    Hong Kong Cantonese
    Hong Kong Cantonese is a form of Yue Chinese commonly spoken in Hong Kong. Although Hongkongers largely identify this variant of Chinese with the term "Cantonese" , a variety of publications in mainland China describe the variant as Hong Kong speech...
    
    
  • Wuzhou dialect
  • Tanka dialect
• Sanyi dialect (Samyap)
  • Nanhai dialect
  • Jiujiang dialect
    Jiujiang dialect
    Jiujiang dialect is a variety of Cantonese. It is spoken with a low pitch accent. Juijiang speakers say "ngai" as a pronoun for the word, "我" instead of saying "ngo" in Standard Cantonese. As well, they say "hao" for the word, "好" but Guangzhou speakers say "ho". A few words differ from the...
    
    
  • Xiqiao dialect
  • Panyu dialect
  • Shunde dialect
• Zhongshan dialect
  • Shiqi dialect
    Shiqi dialect
    Shiqi dialect is a dialect of Yue Chinese. It is spoken by roughly 160,000 people in Zhongshan, Guangdong's Shiqi urban district. It differs slightly from Cantonese, mainly in its pronunciation and lexicon....
    
    
  • Sanjiao dialect

• Guan-Bao dialect
  • Dongguan dialect
  • Bao'an dialect (Waitau)

Guan-Bao is divergent.