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Yuehai
粵海方言
Native to	China
Region	Pearl River Delta, Guangdong
Native speakers	13 million? (1998)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Yue Yuehai
Dialects	Guangfu Sanyi Xiangshan Guanbao
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	yueh1236
Linguasphere	79-AAA-ma
The four main Yuehai languages, at right, are shaded in pink

Yuehai (Chinese: 粵海方言; Jyutping: jyut6 hoi2 fong1 jin4; pinyin: Yuèhǎi fāngyán) 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 of Yuehai.

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

• Guangfu dialects
  • Guangzhou dialect
  • Hong Kong dialect
  • Xiguan dialect
  • Tanka dialect
• Sanyi / Nanpanshun dialects
  • Jiujiang dialect
• Xiangshan dialect
  • Shiqi dialect
• Guanbao dialect
  • Bao'an dialect (Waitau)

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