Siyi Yue has a representative dialect that is related to what larger language?
Taishanese Taishanese, or in the Cantonese romanization Toishanese (; Taishanese: ] ), is a dialect of Yue Chinese. The dialect is related to and is often referred to as Cantonese but has little mutual intelligibility with the latter. Taishanese is spoken in the southern part of Guangdong Province in China, particularly around the city-level county of Taishan located on the western fringe of the Pearl River Delta. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, a significant amount of Chinese emigration to North America originated from this four-counties area called Sze Yup, making Toishanese a dominant variety of the Chinese language spoken in Chinatowns in Canada and the United States. It was formerly the lingua franca of the overseas Chinese residing in the United States.
Philippine Mandarin Philippine Mandarin () is a variety of Standard Mandarin Chinese widely spoken by Chinese Filipinos. It is based on the phonology of the Beijing dialect and the grammar of Vernacular Chinese, and is identical to the standard of Mandarin used in the Republic of China, Taiwan that is called "Guoyu" (國語 ). In terms of phonology, vocabulary and grammar, Standard Philippine Mandarin is similar to "Guoyu" (Standard Chinese in the Republic of China (Taiwan)) because almost all uses dictionaries and books from Taiwan. Many Chinese Filipino schools uses bopomofo ("zhuyin fuhao") to teach the language. Philippine Mandarin uses the Traditional Chinese characters in writing and it is seen in the newspapers. "Philippine Mandarin" can be classified into two distinct Mandarin dialects: "Standard Mandarin" and "Colloquial Mandarin". These two dialects are easily distinguishable to a person proficient in Mandarin. "Standard Mandarin" is like the standard language of Taiwan, while "Colloquial Mandarin" tends to combine "Mandarin" () and "Min Nan Yu" (閩南語 ) or Southern Hokkien features.