Is there any connection between Sichuan dialect and Cantonese?

Sichuan dialect is related to Cantonese. Sichuan Shu dialect and immigrant dialects from Huguang, Guangdong and Jiangxi gradually evolved and merged.

Sichuan dialect originated from the ancient non-Chinese languages of Shu and Cuban, and the words from the ancient Shu and Cuban are still preserved in the original layer of Sichuan dialect. Since then, Sichuan dialect has been developing and changing with the historical process and the changes of immigrants from Sichuan. First, after Qin destroyed Shu, Sichuan gradually formed a unique Sichuan dialect belonging to the Han family. Later, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, due to a large number of immigrants from Huguang and other places entering Sichuan, Sichuan dialect evolved and merged with immigrant dialects from all over the world, and finally formed today's Sichuan dialect.

Cantonese has a complete set of nine tones and six tones, retaining more features of ancient Chinese. It has a complete series of characters, which can be completely expressed by Chinese characters (Cantonese characters). Besides Mandarin, China is the only Chinese language independently studied in foreign universities. Cantonese is the official language of Hong Kong and Macao, the fourth largest language in Australia, the third largest language in the United States and Canada, and the second largest language in New Zealand.

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Sichuan dialect is not the same as Sichuan dialect, because besides Sichuan dialect, there are other commonly used Chinese languages in Sichuan Province, such as Tukan dialect (Hakka dialect) and Laohuguang dialect (Hunan dialect), which are distributed in various parts of Sichuan in the form of dialect islands. At the same time, there are a large number of users of Tibetan, Yi and Qiang languages in Sichuan Province.

However, due to its strong position in Sichuan and Chongqing, Sichuan dialect is actually the lingua franca. Generally speaking, users of Tukan dialect and Laohuguang dialect also use Sichuan dialect, while some Tibetan, Yi and Qiang areas in Chengdu and Chongqing, especially Xichang, Kangding, Yajiang, Zhaojue, Marcand, Songpan and Danba, are close to Sichuan dialect.

The Qiang people in Sichuan call Sichuan dialect "Chinese dialect". In addition, Sichuan dialect was once called "Shu dialect", "Shu dialect" and "Mandarin" in Sichuan local chronicles. Academics often refer to the previously popular languages in Sichuan as "Shu Dialect" or "Bashu Dialect", which is different from Sichuan Dialect formed by the integration of Bashu Dialect and immigrant dialects from different places after Ming and Qing Dynasties.

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