How to distinguish Chaozhou dialect from Minnan dialect? It feels the same.

1, with different distribution ranges. Minnan dialect is mainly distributed in Fujian and Taiwan Province provinces. Chaoshan dialect is mainly distributed in Chaoshan area of eastern Guangdong and overseas.

2. There are differences in pronunciation. Chaoshan dialect and Minnan dialect have a high degree of correspondence in grammar and vocabulary, but there are some differences in pronunciation and intonation. So it's hard to communicate with each other.

3. The Minnan initials in Fujian, Quanzhou and Xiamen are 17. Zhangzhou is 18. Chaoshan dialect has the initial 18, just like Zhangzhou dialect.

Broadly speaking, extended materials refer to the collection of Minnan languages, while narrowly speaking, they only refer to the Minnan languages of Fujian and Taiwan Province. Scholars in Taiwan Province Province and the West regard it as a language. In the classification of continental linguistics, it belongs to a kind of Min language in Chinese language family.

Chaozhou dialect, the mother tongue in Chaoshan area, is well preserved. Besides speaking Mandarin at school and communicating with foreigners, local people still speak Chaozhou dialect in their daily life and business. Chaozhou dialect, also known as Chaoshan dialect, is widely used in Chaoshan area of eastern Guangdong and overseas Chinese.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Minnan language