Gao-Yang Yue

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Gao-Yang dialect
高陽方言
Native to Southern China
Native speakers
unknown (5.4 million cited 1998)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ISO 639-6 goya
Glottolog gaol1235[2]
Yue Dialects.png
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

  1. Olson, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China
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