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。 (Baiyue, the aboriginals who used to inhabit what is now Southern China.)
名詞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。
gwong2 dung1 waa2 bou2 lau4 zo2 hou2 do1 zung1 gu2 hon3 jyu5 ge3 dak6 zing1, daan6 hai6 jau6 jau5 siu2 siu2 ci5 baak3 jyut6 jan4 ge3 jyu5 jin4.
Cantonese has retained many features of Middle Chinese, but also slightly resembled the languages of Baiyue peoples.
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。 (Baiyue, the aboriginals who used to inhabit what is now Southern China.)
名詞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。
gwong2 dung1 waa2 bou2 lau4 zo2 hou2 do1 zung1 gu2 hon3 jyu5 ge3 dak6 zing1, daan6 hai6 jau6 jau5 siu2 siu2 ci5 baak3 jyut6 jan4 ge3 jyu5 jin4.
Cantonese has retained many features of Middle Chinese, but also slightly resembled the languages of Baiyue peoples.
原书拼音: /paːk̚³ jyːt̚²/
Baiyue (the "hundred Yue tribes" to China's south between the first millennium BC and the first millennium AD)
南取百越之地，以為桂林、象郡；百越之君，俛首係頸，委命下吏。
[Qin Shi Huang] captured the land of Baiyue in the south and on it established the commanderies of Guilin and Xiang. The monarch of Baiyue, with his head bowed and a rope tied around his neck, surrendered himself to judicial officials [of the Qin].