Is that Fulao dialect Chaoshan dialect?

Fulao dialect is not Chaoshan dialect.

Fulao dialect is also called Shanwei dialect, and linguists generally believe that Shanwei dialect belongs to Fulao dialect rather than Chaoshan dialect. They all belong to Minnan dialect, a major language family, including Fuzhou dialect, Fulao dialect, Chaoshan dialect and so on.

Chaoshan dialect refers to the dialects spoken in Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang. Chaoshan dialect also has several accents, which vary from place to place, but they can basically communicate.

Shanwei dialect also has several accents. Linguists generally believe that Shanwei dialect belongs to Fulao dialect rather than Chaoshan dialect. Shanwei dialect is divided into Haifeng dialect, urban dialect and Lufeng dialect.

Shanwei dialect is popular in Shanwei City, Honghai District, Overseas Chinese District, Haifeng, Lufeng, Shenshan District, Shantou City, Chaozhou City, Jieyang City and parts of Taiwan Province Province. It is a branch of Minnan dialect in this area. The Minnan language of Fujian-Taiwan films is relatively unified internally. It is generally believed that Shanwei dialect and Chaozhou dialect are two branches of Minnan dialect.

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Language features:

More similar to ancient Chinese.

Compared with Mandarin, Haifeng dialect retains more ancient Chinese elements, including pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. For example, the rhymes of "ou" and "iu" in modern Chinese are different in Mandarin, but they are the same in ancient Chinese and Haifeng dialect. For example, "Liu" and "Lou" are homophones in Haifeng dialect.

The different rhymes of ancient Chinese in Haifeng dialect are obviously different from those of Putonghua. For example, "Dong" and "Dong" have different rhymes in ancient Chinese, but they are different in Haifeng dialect.

Haifeng dialect retains a large number of ancient Chinese words in daily use, such as "Yi" nose, "Qie" (meaning "dig"), flat food (wonton, except Haifeng dialect, only a few rural areas in Henan retain this usage now), learning (sound "Zhu Fang", meaning school) and measures (.

Baidu encyclopedia-Shanwei dialect