What is the origin of Minnan dialect in Wenzhou?

Most people who spoke Minnan dialect were immigrants from Zhang Quan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They are mainly distributed in the south of Wenzhou, but also immigrated to Changxing, Anji, Lin 'an and Yixing in Jiangsu, and have been distributed in Guangde, Ningguo, langxi, Wuhu East, Shangrao, Yushan, Guangfeng in Jiangxi and the northern border of Pucheng in Fujian. They often call themselves "Wenzhou people", but they actually speak Minnan dialect instead of Wenzhou dialect. Some of these immigrants, like the Wenhua immigrants in Zhejiang, moved when the Qing government requisitioned the land abandoned by soldiers after the Taiping War.

Fujian dialect, which is popular in Wenzhou, is called "Fujian dialect" by local people and belongs to the Minnan dialect family of Fujian dialect. It is mainly distributed in the middle, west and south of Cangnan, the middle and upper reaches of Pingyang Aojiang River and the southeast coastal area, the southeast of Taishun County, Dongtou Island and some villages in the south corner. Besides, Yuhuan and Jingning also speak Min dialect. In order to distinguish it from Minnan dialect in southern Fujian, we call Minnan dialect in the above areas "Minnan dialect".

According to statistics, there are * * *1287,000 people in Wenzhou who speak Fujian dialect, including 848,000 people who speak Minnan dialect and 439,000 people who speak Mindong dialect. Among them, there are 1.4 million people who speak Minnan in Taishun, 243,000 people who speak Minnan in Pingyang, 484,000 people who speak Minnan in Cangnan and 52,000 people who speak Minnan in Dongtou.

Minnan is spoken in most areas of Cangnan, and in a few areas of Pingyang (Ouyu is spoken in Longgang and Aojiang towns).

The main population of Minnan dialect in Cangnan is distributed in Lingxi Town (mostly), Zaoxi Town, Fengchi Township, Puting Township, Qiaodun Town, Juxi Town (mostly), Guanmei Town, Tengtuyang Township (mostly), Fanshan Town, Wufeng Township, Southern Song Town (mostly), Changchan Township (mostly), Chixi Town, Zhongdun Township and Longsha Township.

Similarities and differences between Wenzhou Minnan dialect and Fujian Minnan dialect

Min dialect, which is popular in southern Wenzhou, is also called "Southern Zhejiang Min Dialect", which is called "Min Dialect" by local people and belongs to the Minnan dialect family. Minnan dialect in southern Zhejiang has both the general commonness of Minnan dialect in Fujian and a common feature, which is the complexity of literary and colloquial reading. There are many words that sound like one sound and sound like another. Influenced by Putonghua, Chinese pronunciation is close to Beijing pronunciation, while white pronunciation is original local pronunciation. The two sounds form a system and correspond to each other. This is true of Minnan dialect in Fujian, and so is Minnan dialect in Zhejiang.

There are also differences between Minnan dialect in southern Zhejiang and Minnan dialect in Fujian, which are mainly manifested in two aspects: First, Minnan dialect in Fujian still retains the entering tone, while the entering tone in Minnan dialect in southern Zhejiang has disappeared. Secondly, Fujian Minnan dialect has three sets of consonant endings, which are pronounced M, N and N respectively, which are different from each other. However, it has become a complete homonym in Fujian dialect in southern Zhejiang. Besides pronunciation, there are differences in vocabulary and grammar. For example, in Minnan dialect in Fujian, suffix overlap is often used to indicate the degree of adjectives, and when describing "red", it means "burning red" and "burning red". The more overlap, the higher the degree. This is rarely used in Min dialect in southern Zhejiang, but it is changed to "red", "red" and "red", which is obviously influenced by Ou dialect.