【粤语英文】用英文怎样介绍粤语啊

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【答案】 The issue of whether Yue is a language in its own right or a dialect of a single Chinese language depends on conceptions of what a language is. Like the other branches of Chinese, Yue is considered a dialect for ethnic, political, and cultural reasons, but it is also considered a distinct language because of linguistic reasons. Spoken Cantonese is mutually unintelligible with other varieties of Chinese, though intelligible to a certain degree in its written form.
　　The areas of China with the highest concentration of speakers are the provinces of Guangdong and (eastern) Guangxi and the regions of Hong Kong and Macau. There are also substantial Cantonese- and Taishanese-speaking minorities overseas in Southeast Asia, Canada, Australia, and the United States.
　　The prototypical use of the name Cantonese in English is for the Guangzhou (Canton) dialect of Yue, but it is monly used for Yue as a whole. To avoid confusion, academic texts may call the primary branch of Chinese Yue, following the Mandarin pinyin spelling, and either restrict Cantonese to its mon usage as the dialect of Guangzhou, or avoid the term Cantonese altogether and distinguish Yue from Canton or Guangzhou dialect.
　　In Chinese, people of Hong Kong, of Macau, and Cantonese immigrants abroad[clarification needed] usually call the Yue language Gwóngdùng wá [kʷɔ̌ːŋ tʊ́ŋ wǎː] (广东话) speech of Guangdong. People of Guangdong and Guangxi do not use that term, but rather Yuht Yúh [jỳt jy̬ː] (粤语) Yue language. They also use baahk wá [pàːk wǎː] (白话) on its own to refer to the Guangzhou dialect. It is also used to refer to Yue dialects in Guangxi, as for example in an expression like 南宁白话, which means the baak waa of Nanning.
　　By law, Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua 普通话 or guoyu 国语) is the standard language of mainland China and Taiwan and is taught nearly universally as a supplement to local languages such as Cantonese in Guangdong. Yue is the de facto official language of Hong Kong (along with English) and Macau (along with Portuguese), though legally the official language is just Chinese. Yue is also one of the main languages in many overseas Chinese munities including Australia, Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. Many of these emigrants or their ancestors originated from Guangdong. In addition, these immigrant munities formed before the widespread use of Mandarin, or they are from Hong Kong where Mandarin is not monly used. The prestige dialect of Yue is the Guangzhou dialect. In Hong Kong, colloquial Cantonese often incorporates English words due to historical British influences.