What local language is Cantonese?

Cantonese is distributed in the Pearl River Delta and is widely used in China's Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, Macau, North America, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Christmas Island, such as Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.

Guangzhou pronunciation is the established standard Cantonese pronunciation, and most Cantonese dictionaries are based on Guangzhou pronunciation. Guangzhou has long maintained the standard status of Cantonese with traditional arts such as Cantonese Opera and Cantonese Opera.

1After the end of 1970s, canto pop, Cantonese TV dramas and Cantonese movies strongly influenced Guangdong and then spread to Chinese mainland. There is no obvious difference between Hong Kong accent and Guangzhou accent, but the sense of language is slightly different, which is due to the different idioms and words used in different social systems and the teaching reform in the two places.

Extended data:

Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese. When Chinese is regarded as a language, Cantonese, Mandarin and Wu dialect are all dialects of Chinese. Many people think that only Mandarin can be called a language, and others are called dialects. Although this idea is one-sided, many people still think so.

Guangdong dialect is mainly divided into three categories: Cantonese, Hakka and Chaoshan dialect, which are used by Guangfu people, Hakka people and Chaoshan people respectively. In addition to these three categories, there are dialects like Leizhou dialect, Maoming dialect and Siyi dialect.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cantonese (a language in Sino-Tibetan language family)