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Where is Cantonese not spoken in Guangdong Province?

Guangdong Province mainly uses Hakka dialect in Meizhou, Heyuan and Huizhou. Chaozhou dialect is the main dialect in Chaozhou, Shantou, Shanwei and Jieyang. In addition, Zhanjiang dialect is the dialect of Zhanjiang in western Guangdong.

The sub-provincial or prefecture-level cities in Guangdong Province that are pure Cantonese or mainly Cantonese are Guangzhou, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing, Maoming, Yangjiang, Yunfu and Qingyuan.

Cantonese, also known as Cantonese and Guangfu dialect, is commonly known as vernacular Chinese, and overseas is called Tang dialect. It is one of the seven dialects of Sino-Tibetan tonal language and Chinese, and it is also the mother tongue of Guangfu people of Han nationality.

Hakka dialect, referred to as Hakka for short, is mainly concentrated in eastern Guangdong, western Fujian and southwestern Jiangxi, and is widely used in southern China (including Taiwan Province Province) and Malaysian Chinese communities.

Chaozhou dialect is the mother tongue of Chaoshan people (Chaozhou Bayi and Chaozhou Prefecture). Today, Chaozhou dialect is still the gathering place of Chaoshan people in Chaoshan area and overseas Southeast Asia, Western Europe and Australia. Chaozhou dialect is represented by the old Chaozhou Fucheng dialect.

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Baidu encyclopedia? Cantonese? Hakka? Teochew dialect