The ASJP Database - Wordlist Cantonese

Wordlist Cantonese

Compiled by Cecil H. Brown and Søren Wichmann

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No.	Meaning	Concepticon	Word	Loan

Glottocode: yuec1235
ISO 639-3: yue

Coordinates WGS84

23°N, 113°E
23.00, 113.00

number of speakers	84,891,570
status	alive

Classification

WALS: ST > Chinese
Glottolog: Sino Tibetan > Sinitic > Classical Middle Modernsinitic > Middle Modernsinitic > Yue Pinghua
Ethnologue: Sino Tibetan > Chinese

Sources

Huang 1970: Cantonese dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press.; Liam Doherty, p.c.