百越
baak3 jyut6Bǎi Yuè
English
- Baiyue, generic term for southern ethnic groups
- Baiyue, the aboriginals who used to inhabit what is now Southern China.
粵語 — Cantonese
- 古時對住喺而家華南地區民族嘅統稱,後嚟喺 10 世紀開始漢化同埋同古漢人通婚,形成現代華南各漢族民系。
Examples
廣東話保留咗好多中古漢語嘅特徵,但係又有少少似百越人嘅語言。
Cantonese has retained many features of Middle Chinese, but also slightly resembled the languages of Baiyue peoples.
Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk