here's another source that also disambiguates cantonese from yue cantonese a comprehensive grammar by stephen matthews and virginia yip p cantonese is the most widely known and influential variety of chinese other than mandarin it belongs to the yue group of dialects p traditionally the speech of guangzhou canton is the standard of comparison hence the terms cantonese and gw ngj u w it seems to me that although the term cantonese can be used to refer to yue in general i have seen no source that does this without needing to preface the fact that they are referring to the more general group every source i've seen always uses cantonese to refer to the prestige standard dialect whenever the word is unqualified this appears to be the common english usage of the word