The origin of wenzhou dialect. ?

Wenzhou dialect has a long history. The most important Wenzhou dialect is Ou dialect, which is a branch of Wu dialect. Zhao Yuanren's Research on Modern Wu Dialect put forward a scientific definition of Wu Dialect, and since then Ou Dialect has been recognized as a branch of Wu Dialect. Wang Li's Introduction to China Language lists it as a warm Taiwanese language family of Wu dialect. The Atlas of Chinese Language, co-edited by China Academy of Social Sciences and australian academy of the humanities, divides Wu dialect into six pieces, and Ou dialect is Wu Oujiang piece.

Wenzhou dialect

Before the Qin Dynasty, Ou Yue belonged to Baiyue (Yuyue), and the main bodies were Dongyue and Baiyue, who spoke the ancient Yue language that was connected with wuyue, but could not communicate with the Chinese spoken by Qi and Chu. But it is homologous to today's Dong language, Zhuang language, Burmese language, Vietnamese language, Jing language and Thai language. In the common spoken language of modern Wenzhou dialect, there are still many traces of Dong-Tai dialect. Whether the ancient Vietnamese language belongs to Austronesian language family or Dong-Tai language is still controversial, because the two languages are also closely related. However, in terms of geographical distribution and genetic research, the Yue people are closer to the Gaoshan people in Taiwan Province Province (the Taiwan Province language family in the Austronesian language family), but far from the Zhuang Dong people in the Dong-Tai language family.

In 333 BC, the State of Chu destroyed Yue and strengthened its rule over wuyue. Until 22 1 year BC, Qin unified China, which lasted 1 12 years. Due to the influence and function of Chu people in wuyue, Dongchu dialect and ancient wuyue dialect merged to form a new Chinese-"Jiangdong dialect", which is the direct ancestor of Wu dialect. In the Tang Dynasty, "Hui Lin Yi Yin" collectively called the dialects spoken in Jiangdong as "the Voice of Wu Chu". Most of the old words in Wenzhou dialect can be traced back to Jiangdong dialect, which is also the main source of Wenzhou dialect white reading system.

Wenzhou dialect

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Han people formally explored wuyue, but southern Zhejiang and Fujian were still under the control of the Yue people, and Dong 'ou and Fujian, which were established by the Yue people, were always in an independent state. Although during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dong 'ou "moved to all parts of China, but it was noted that it was between the Jianghuai area", only the royal families and strongmen of Ou and Yue moved away. During this period, there were more and more Chinese loanwords, but the main vocabulary of Ouyue dialect was still indigenous words.

During the Six Dynasties, Jiangdong dialect began to be divided into Wu dialect and Min dialect. Wenzhou belonged to Huiji County from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the founding of the county in 323 AD. According to the records of Guo Pu in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Ouyue people should have spoken the ancient Wu language since the Six Dynasties. Because of its border with the Min dialect area, Wenzhou dialect still retains many of the same features as the ancient Min dialect.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were several large-scale immigration waves, especially after the capital was moved in the Southern Song Dynasty, the number of Han immigrants from the Central Plains in Wenzhou increased greatly. The orthodox Chinese culture brought by these Central Plains immigrants to Ouyue has transformed the local Chinese dialect, and the Central Plains dialect has left the characteristics of Wenzhou dialect's different pronunciations. Wenzhou dialect in Song Dynasty is very close to modern Chinese. After several changes in northern Chinese, Wenzhou dialect still maintains many ancient phonetic features of Chinese, so reading Tang poetry and Song poetry in Wenzhou dialect is more fluent than Mandarin.

The similarity between Wenzhou dialect and Putonghua is basically the lowest among all dialects in the south, which is quite different from other dialects.