Proper noun

(en proper noun)

The modern Sinitic language which includes Cantonese (Canton) dialect. ISO 639-3: yue

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, year=1989 , title=The Languages of China , author=S. Robert Ramsey , page=98 , passage=The Yue' dialects are popularly known as the Cantonese dialects. [...] The speech of Canton City, which is Cantonese in its narrower sense, is the best known and most generally esteemed of the ' Yue dialects.}}

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, year=2000 , chapter=YUE (Cantonese) , title=Compendium of the World's Languages , author=George L. Campbell , passage=One form of Yue —that of Canton—has provided an umbrella term for the whole [language] complex—Cantonese. , page=1793}}

People who speak Yue, such as the Cantonese and Taishanese

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, year=1989 , title=The Languages of China , author=S. Robert Ramsey , page=98 , passage=If there is a well-defined subgroup of the Han Chinese today, it is the Yue .}}

Any of several ancient Tai peoples of what is now Guangdong province, or their languages