Gao–Yang Yue
Gao-Yang dialect | |
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Native to | Southern China |
Native speakers | (5.4 million cited 1998)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
ISO 639-6 | goya |
Glottolog | gaol1235 |
Gao-Yang is red, in the middle of the Yue area. |
Gao-Yang, or Gao-Lei, is one of four principal dialects of Yue (Cantonese). It is spoken in and around Maoming and Yangjiang in southwestern Guangdong.
The name derives from its two subdialects, Gaozhou and Yangjiang.
References
- ^ Olson, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China