Language · Sino-Tibetan
Cantonese
粵語 – its own name
Official or co-official in 1 country. Listed in 5 countries.
Endangerment: not endangered according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 82 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Traditional Han
Place in the family tree
- Sino-Tibetan
- Sinitic (Chinese)
- Classical-Middle-Modern Sinitic
- Middle-Modern Sinitic
- Yue-Pinghua
- Cantonese
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Co-official 1
- Widely used 1
- Minority 3
Co-official
- Macao SAR China 86% 554 thousand (de facto)
Widely used
- Hong Kong SAR China 90% 6.6 million