Chaozhou dialect area

Immigrant communities in Chinese mainland, Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province Province, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Chaoshan are all over the world.

Chinese mainland speaks Chaozhou dialect: East Guangdong, including Chaozhou, Shantou, Jieyang, Chaoyang, Puning, Chaoan, Raoping, Huilai and Shanwei.

/kloc-from 0/8 to the 20th century, Chaozhou residents were one of the main ethnic groups of Chinese immigrants to Southeast Asia, so Chaozhou dialect became one of the main dialects of overseas Chinese. Therefore, many people in the Chinese community outside the Chaoshan area speak Chaoshan dialect.

Among them, many chaozhou people have settled in Thailand and Cambodia, becoming the largest Chinese ethnic group there. Chaozhou people has formed important ethnic groups in Hongkong, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (especially Riau, North Sumatra, South Sumatra, Kundian and Chittagong in West Kalimantan). Some chaozhou people also live in Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe, some from Chaozhou and some from Southeast Asia.

However, with the popularization of globalization, the number of people who speak Chaozhou dialect as their mother tongue is gradually decreasing. Influenced by the same culture and media, many Chinese-Singaporean teenagers, whose mother tongue was Chaozhou dialect, switched to English, Chinese and Minnan dialect (which has some interoperability with Chaozhou dialect). Chinese has gradually replaced Chaozhou dialect and become the mother tongue of young people. Nevertheless, Chaozhou dialect is still the mother tongue of many Chinese in Singapore, and chaozhou people is the second largest ethnic group of Chinese in Singapore, second only to Minnan people.