Cantonese dialect - Etsuhogen

Japanese: 粤方言 - えつほうげん
Cantonese dialect - Etsuhogen

…The semantic evocation of romanized spelling, even with the aid of tones and the distinction between monosyllabic and polysyllabic words, is still extremely low compared to that of kanji.
【dialect】
The Outline of Chinese Dialects, co-authored by Yuan Jiahua and others and published in 1960, divides present-day Chinese dialects into eight major categories: (1) Northern dialect, (2) Wu dialect, (3) Xiang dialect, (4) Gan dialect, (5) Hakka dialect, (6) Yue dialect, (7) Southern Min dialect, and (8) Northern Min dialect.
[Northern Dialect]
It is sometimes called an official dialect because it focuses on what was once called "official language," or the official language.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "Cantonese dialect" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ローマ字つづりのもつ〈意味喚起性〉は,たとえ声調の助けを借り,単音節語彙・複音節語彙の書分けがあったとしても,なお漢字のそれに比べて極端に低いといわなければならないのである。漢字
【方言】
 1960年に出版された袁家驊ほかの共著《漢語方言概要》は現在の中国方言を(1)北方話,(2)呉方言,(3)湘(しよう)方言,(4)贛(かん)方言,(5)客家(ハツカ)方言,(6)粤(えつ)方言,(7)閩(びん)南方言,(8)閩北方言に8大別する。
[北方話]
 かつてのいわゆる〈官話〉つまり官用言語と呼ばれたものを中心にするということで官話方言と呼ばれることもある。…

※「粤方言」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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