How to say "Cantonese" in English?

Cantonese, also known as Cantonese and Guangfu dialect, is commonly known as vernacular Chinese, and is called Tang dialect overseas. It is one of the seven dialects of Chinese tonal language and Chinese, belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family, and is also the mother tongue of Guangfu people of Han nationality.

About 67 million people in Guangdong speak Cantonese, plus about 25 million people in Guangxi, 7 million people in Hong Kong, 550,000 people in Macau, 5 million people in Thailand, 5 million people in Singapore and Malaysia, 2 million people in the United States and Canada, and about 654.38+0.2 billion people in the world speak Cantonese.

Cantonese originated from the elegant language in the northern part of the Central Plains (that is, Henan). After a long period of language exchange, integration and adjustment, it matured in the Tang Dynasty and developed into the Song Dynasty, which is not far from modern Cantonese.

It has complete nine tones and six tones, and retains more features of ancient Chinese. Cantonese is widely popular in overseas Chinese communities in China, such as Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, Sydney, Melbourne, Christmas Island, new york, San Francisco, Vancouver and Toronto.

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The name of "Yue" comes from "Nanyue" in ancient Lingnan area of China (Hanshu as "Nanyue"). "Yue" is a generic term, and the old sayings "Yue" and "Yue" are interchangeable words. Tribes south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are often referred to as "Yue" in ancient books before Qin Dynasty, while they are called Baiyue and Baiyue in literature, including "wuyue" (southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang), "Min Yue" (Fujian) and.

After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the meanings of "Yue" and "Yue" began to differ. The former is mostly used in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Wu-speaking areas, while the latter is mostly used in Lingnan and Guangdong, which has long been a general term for Lingnan areas. Guangdong

Cantonese is commonly known as "vernacular" in Guangdong and Guangxi, "Cantonese" and "Guangfu dialect" at home and abroad, and "Tang dialect" in Chinatown in the United States. The names "Guangfu dialect" and "provincial dialect" refer to the old guangzhou fu area (now Guangzhou and its surrounding Nanfanshun area); Guangfu dialect refers to guangzhou fu dialect in a narrow sense (original meaning) and Cantonese in a broad sense (cultural generalization).

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