Languages

Yue Chinese

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Yue Chinese." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/yue-chinese.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Yue Chinese. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/yue-chinese

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-yue-chinese,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Yue Chinese},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/yue-chinese},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Yue is a branch of the Sinitic languages primarily spoken in Southern China, particularly in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, collectively known as Liangguang.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

yue 1

Speaker Count

86,000,000 1

2021-2024 native-speaker figure from the article infobox; Ethnologue's total speaker figure for Yue is cited as approximately 86 million in secondary tabulations.

Region

Guangdong, Guangxi, western Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Sino-Tibetan

Source Wikipedia: Yue Chinese

In the Other Atlases

Also in Geography Atlas: China, located there.

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Yue Chinese

Wikimedia FoundationLead section

Quote, Lead section

Yue (Cantonese pronunciation ...) is a branch of the Sinitic languages primarily spoken in Southern China, particularly in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (collectively known as Liangguang).

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1. Wikipedia: Yue Chinese

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