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.
Sifu Sifu (from Cantonese spelling) or shīfu (from Mandarin spelling) is a title for and role of a skillful person or a master. It may be written with the Chinese characters 師傅 ( )/师傅 ( ) or 師父/师父. The character 師/师 means "skilled person", while the meaning of 傅 is "tutor" and the meaning of 父 is "father." Both characters 傅 and 父 are pronounced ""fu"" with the same tones in Cantonese and Mandarin, creating some ambiguity. A similar term often used in Chinese is 老師/老师 (Cantonese Chinese pronunciation: "lou5 si1"; Mandarin Chinese pronunciation: "lǎoshī"), meaning "teacher" or literally "old person of skill".