Please respect history and different ethnic groups. There are three major language families in Guangdong: Hakka, Chaoshan, and vernacular. Neither of the first two can speak vernacular, but they are a

Please respect history and different ethnic groups. There are three major language families in Guangdong: Hakka, Chaoshan, and vernacular. Neither of the first two can speak vernacular, but they are all Cantonese. .

Correction: According to the Guangdong Provincial Government, nearly 40 million people in Guangdong speak Cantonese (vernacular), 17 million people speak southern Fujian dialect (including Chaoshan dialect and Leizhou dialect), and 15 million people speak Hakka. Therefore The Hakka population ranks third in the province, not second (many people ignore Leizhou dialect, which belongs to the Hokkien language family, and only count Chaoshan dialect, which has a population of about 12 million. In fact, there are more than 5 million people speaking it. Leizhou dialect includes more than 4 million people in Zhanjiang, more than 800,000 people in Dianbai and suburbs of Maoming, and nearly 100,000 people in Yangxi County of Yangjiang). Therefore, the Cantonese-speaking population accounts for about 55%, and the two dialects of Minnan and Hakka account for about 45%. Where did the 3/5 come from? Many Hakka people deliberately exaggerate the population of the Hakka ethnic group. It is time to correct this. Don’t think that from the distribution area, Hakka accounts for 3/6, Cantonese accounts for 2/6, and Chaoshan Leizhou accounts for 1/6, it means that Hakka accounts for nearly half of the population of Guangdong. You must know that the Hakka area is vast and sparsely populated, and only Meizhou The city is larger than the combined area of ??the seven cities in the Pearl River Delta, but its registered population is only 5 million (excluding the 110,000 Chaoshan people in Fengshun County), and its Heyuan population is only about 3 million (the local dialect of Dongjiang is temporarily considered to be Hakka. If Respect the wishes of Dongjiang locals, they should form an independent branch or belong to the Cantonese Huihe film), Huizhou 3.8 million (including more than 500,000 Dongjiang locals, more than 400,000 Chaoshan people, and more than 300,000 Guangfu Cantonese people), Shaoguan has 3 million people (excluding the 700,000 Cantonese-speaking people in the urban area and many counties, although some of them are of Hakka descent, and there are hundreds of thousands of northern Cantonese-speaking people).

Furthermore, Hakka is widely used around the world? So why is speaking vernacular limited to Guangdong? Did you know that overseas, especially in North America and Western Europe, Westerners only know two kinds of Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)? Cantonese is spoken in central and western Guangdong, southeastern Guangxi, parts of Hainan, Hong Kong and Macau. In addition, nearly 90% of the overseas Chinese in the United States, Canada, Central and South America, the United Kingdom, Ireland and other countries are from the Cantonese-speaking area of ??Guangdong (including Hong Kong), Chinatown The commonly spoken Chinese language is Cantonese (previously Taishan dialect, now mainly Cantonese). In France, Italy, Spain and other countries, there are more Chaoshan people and Wenzhou people in Zhejiang. In Southeast Asian countries, although there are slightly more people from southern Fujian, there are more people from Guangdong ( In a narrow sense, referring to Cantonese-speaking Cantonese) people also rank second (mainly in most countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar, and small parts of Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, etc.), and Chaoshan people rank third. (Thailand, most of Cambodia and small parts of other countries), I don’t know which one is fourth or fifth, Hakka or Hainanese, but they are definitely not in the top three.

Furthermore, Hakka has a longer history than Cantonese? The southern Fujian dialects (Xiamen, Taiwanese, Chaoshan, etc.) certainly have a longer history than Cantonese and have more ancient Chinese components than Cantonese. However, Cantonese retains the most medieval Chinese components among Chinese dialects, and is closest to Sui and Tang Chinese (of course it is also mixed Many Baiyue languages), the Hakkas claim to be the descendants of people from the Central Plains who migrated south since the Song Dynasty (in fact, they are mixed with a large amount of She ethnic origin, and their language is highly similar to the She dialect), so they retain many characteristics of the Chinese language of the Song Dynasty. Another view: Among the seven major dialects in China, Wu and Lao Xiang were the earliest, followed by Min and Cantonese, then Gan, New Xiang and Hakka, and finally Mandarin.

The vernacular is called Cantonese or Cantonese due to both geographical and historical factors (it originated and developed in Guangdong, and is mainly used in Guangdong), as well as actual social, economic and influential factors (the use of The relatively largest number of people, the greatest influence and visibility inside and outside the province, and the most developed media), but this does not mean that there is only one dialect in Guangdong Province. The dialects in Guangdong Province can only be called "Guangdong dialect". This is similar to many provinces in China (in addition to Min, Fujian also has Hakka, Gan, Wu, Mandarin, etc., but Min definitely refers to the southern Fujian dialect in Xiaquan and Zhangzhou, the Eastern Fujian dialect in Fuzhou, and the Fujian dialect in Sanming. The central Min dialect in Jian'ou and the Puxian dialect in Putian City, etc., absolutely no one would think that the Tingzhou Hakka dialect in western Fujian is one of the Min languages, and no one has seen Tingzhou people competing for the title of Min dialect. A name; arranged by number of people, Hunan dialects include Xiang, Southwest Mandarin, Gan, Xiangnan dialect, Hakka, and Xianghua, but only the dialects in Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, Changsha (New Xiang) and the dialects in Shuangfeng (Old Xiang) are called It is the Xiang language; Jiangxi dialects include Gan, Hakka, Wu, Hui, Mandarin, Minnan, etc., but it is recognized that most areas represented by Nanchang speak Gan dialect, and Hakkas in the Ganzhou area of ??southern Ganxi have never seen competition for Gan. (the name of dialect), why are only the Hakkas in Guangdong so obsessed with the terms Cantonese and Cantonese, and "correct" vernacular ≠ Cantonese ≠ Cantonese (the second half of the sentence is correct, southeastern Guangxi and The belief that the Cantonese spoken in Danzhou, Sanya and other places in Hainan is indeed not called Cantonese). It should be noted that Chaoshan and Leizhou people rarely behave like this. Most people think that the language of Cantonese people is Cantonese and Cantonese, and their own language is Chaozhou dialect (Chaoshan dialect, Chaoyu) and Leizhou dialect (Li dialect). .

The development of Guangdong is the result of Cantonese, Chaoshan people, Helao people (Southern Fujian speakers from Shanwei, Huizhou, Qingyuan, Shaoguan and other places), Zhongshan Longdu people, Leizhou people, Guangdong Hakkas, and northern Guangdong aborigines ( It is the result of the joint efforts of local people (local dialects) and new immigrants from other provinces. We should not engage in internal strife just for the sake of rhetoric. Only by uniting can we develop and build a more prosperous and beautiful new Guangdong!