Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese, is a variety of the Chinese language spoken around Canton (Guangzhou) and its vicinity in southeastern China. It is the traditional prestige variety of Yue, one of the major subdivisions of Chinese. 

In mainland China, it is the "lingua franca" of the province of Guangdong and neighbouring areas such as Guangxi, being the majority language of the Pearl River Delta. It is the dominant and official language of Hong Kong and Macau. Cantonese is also widely spoken amongst overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia (most notably in Vietnam and Malaysia, as well as in Singapore and Cambodia to a lesser extent) and throughout the Western world. 

While the term "Cantonese" refers narrowly to the prestige variety, it is often used in a broader sense for the entire Yue subdivision of Chinese, including related but largely mutually unintelligible languages such as Taishanese. When Cantonese and the closely related Yuehai dialects are classified together, there are about 80 million total speakers. Cantonese is viewed as vital part of the cultural identity for its native speakers across large swathes of southeastern China, Hong Kong and Macau. 

Although Cantonese shares some vocabulary with Mandarin, the two varieties are mutually unintelligible because of differences in pronunciation, grammar and lexicon. Sentence structure, in particular the placement of verbs, sometimes differs between the two varieties. A notable difference between Cantonese and Mandarin is how the spoken word is written; both can be recorded verbatim but very few Cantonese speakers are knowledgeable in the full Cantonese written vocabulary, so a non-verbatim formalised written form is adopted which is more akin to the Mandarin written form. This results in the situation in which a Cantonese and a Mandarin text may look similar, but are pronounced differently. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What does Cantonese refer to?
2. What is meant by Cantonese?
3. 
Q2:
1. Where are there speakers of Cantonese?
2. Where is Cantonese spoken?
3. What part of China features speakers of Cantonese?
Q3:
1. What is Yue?
2. What does Yue refer to?
3. What is Yue a part of?
Q4:
1. What part of Yue is Cantonese?
2. What aspect of Yue is Cantonese a part of?
3. What part of Yue can Cantonese be categorized as?
Q5:
1. Is Cantonese a vital part of Chinese culture?
2. Is Cantonese important to the culture of China?
3. Are there parts of China where Cantonese is a fundamental cultural aspect?
Q6:
1. Approximately how many total speakers are therer of Cantonese?
2. About how many people speak Cantonese?
3. How many people speak Cantonese more or less?
Q7:
1. Is Cantonese the official language anywhere?
2. Does anywhere have Cantonese as its official language?
3. Is there a place where Cantonese serves as the official language?
Q8:
1. Where does Cantonese serve as the official language?
2. Where is Cantonese an official language?
3. What place uses Cantonese as an official language?
Q9:
1. Where is Cantonese widely spoken, other than Hong Kong and Macau?
2. Where else are there many speakers of Cantonese, other than Hong Kong and Macau?
3. Where in addition to Hong Kong and Macau do a lot of people speak Cantonese?
Q10:
1. How similar is Cantonese to Mandarin?
2. How alike are Cantonese and Mandarin?
3. How close is Cantonese to Mandarin?
