Indigenous immigrants in the Pearl River Delta

Because many Hong Kong people are not locals now, but have immigrated from all over China. In the process of emigrating to Hong Kong, the local dialect has no advantage. However, in the upper class of early Chinese society, Cantonese was mainly spoken by Chinese at that time, so with the development of society, Cantonese has continued in Hong Kong until now. Since the opening of Hong Kong. In fact, there are not many indigenous inhabitants in Hong Kong. On the contrary, most members of Hong Kong are immigrants. These immigrants did not form a unified language at that time.

Later, with the social unrest, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement broke out, it spread directly to Guangzhou, causing many Guangzhou people to come to Hong Kong to avoid disasters. After these people settled in Hong Kong, with the development of time, Cantonese became the official language of Hong Kong, because all the communication between them was in Cantonese.

Actually, you can speak English in Hong Kong. After all, Hong Kong has always been a British colony. Although Hong Kong has returned to the motherland, Hong Kong people still follow the old customs in cultural development. In former Hong Kong, Cantonese speakers generally held a high position, including some businessmen and scholars, or learned scholars. These people usually deal with upper-class people, so Guangzhou dialect later became the lingua franca of Hong Kong. From World War II to the end of the civil war, many domestic refugees fled directly to Hong Kong to escape the war. Because many people in Hong Kong spoke Cantonese at that time, after Cantonese became popular, even the aborigines in Hong Kong directly communicated with people in Cantonese.

Foreign dialects are not dominant in Hong Kong, so for the convenience of communication, many people communicate directly in Cantonese. At first, Cantonese was only the main language in Hong Kong. Until the continuous development of society, Cantonese gradually became the common language of Hong Kong, occupying an absolute position.