Cantonese speakers have been shown to understand only about 31% of what they hear in Taishanese (Szeto 2000) Szeto, Cecilia (2000), "Testing intelligibility among Sinitic dialects"(PDF), Proceedings of ALS2K, the 2000 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, retrieved 2008-09-06
Szeto, Cecilia (2001), "Testing intelligibility among Sinitic dialects"(PDF), in Allan, Keith; Henderson, John (eds.), Proceedings of ALS2k, the 2000 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, retrieved 5 Jan 2014
