It is widely used in China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hongkong, Macau and Southeast Asia, as well as in Chinese communities in North America, Britain and Australia. Its name comes from the "Nanyue State" in the ancient Lingnan area of China (Hanshu as "Nanyue State"). As early as a few years ago, linguists Ye and Professor Luo Kangning pointed out in their article "The Origin of Cantonese" that Cantonese has nothing to do with the ancient "Hundred Cantonese". It was brought by Han immigrants from the Central Plains, and retained the characteristics of ancient Chinese in the Central Plains, which was preserved, developed and spread abroad in Xijiang region. This sentence is obviously wrong. Cantonese is a language that originated in the northern Central Plains (the mother tongue of the Han nationality), spread to Guangdong and Guangxi during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and merged with the local ancient Vietnamese, that is, ancient Baiyue. Some people think that "Cantonese does retain some elements of ancient Vietnamese, but its main source is ancient Chinese, that is, elegant words". Modern Cantonese retains many elements of ancient Chinese, more of which are elements of ancient South Vietnam. Its main sources are ancient Chinese in the Central Plains and ancient South Vietnamese.
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