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Yue or Yueh (English pronunciation: /ˈjuːeɪ/ or /juːˈeɪ/) is a primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China particularly the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi.The name Cantonese is often used but linguists prefer to reserve that name for the Yue dialect of Guangzhou (Canton) and Hong Kong which is the prestige dialect.The Cantonese and Taishanese dialects of Yue are spoken by substantial overseas populations in Southeast Asia Canada Australia and the United States.Yue is mutually unintelligible with other varieties of Chinese.They are among the most conservative varieties with regard to the final consonants and tonal categories of Middle Chinese but have lost several distinctions in the initial and medial consonants that other dialects have retained.
