Yue Chinese
primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China
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Summary
Yue Chinese is a language[1]. It ranks in the top 0.66% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,846 views/month, #37 of 5,611).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Brunei[3], People's Republic of China[4], Malaysia[5]
- Instance of: modern language[6], varieties of Chinese[7]
- Subclass of: varieties of Chinese[8], Sinitic[9]
- Writing system: Traditional Chinese[10], Simplified Chinese[11], written Cantonese[12], Cantonese Braille[13]
- Wikimedia language code: zh-yue[14], yue[15]
- Topic's main category: Category:Yue Chinese[16]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 73,100,000[17], 62,221,560[18]
- Replaces: Middle Chinese[19]
- Native label: 粵語[20], 粤语[21]
- Uses: Cantonese characters[22], Chinese characters[23]
- Indigenous to: Guangxi[24], Guangdong[25], Hainan[26], Hong Kong[27], Macau[28]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/YUE[29]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q22828495[30]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[31]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[32], tonal language[33]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[34]
Why It Matters
Yue Chinese has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]