Definition of water source sound

Shuiyuanyin, the local dialect of Dongjiang, is a dialect of Dongjiang in Guangdong, which is called snake dialect by the people. Some scholars believe that Shuiyuanyin is the result of long-term coexistence between Hakka immigrants in Meizhou and Gannan and indigenous people in Huihe area, and the words spoken by these three groups are finally formed through a long-term mixing process. It is different from Meizhou dialect and Gannan dialect and deeply influenced by Guangzhou dialect. Because it retains the basic characteristics of Hakka dialect, it belongs to a branch of Hakka dialect.

Another scholar (such as Liu Shuxin) made a systematic study of a series of Dongjiang dialects, such as Heyuan Yuancheng dialect, Huizhou downtown dialect, Longmen dialect, Xinfeng Daxi dialect, Longchuan Tuocheng dialect, Zijin Guzhu dialect and so on. It is considered that this dialect group is older than "Hakka dialect", which is the local language before the Hakka moved to this area and is closely related to Cantonese. Later, it was surrounded by Hakka dialects (mainly Cantonese-Taiwanese films) that moved into central and eastern Guangdong on a large scale, and gradually assimilated, forming a dialect group that is close to Hakka dialects today and retains the typical characteristics of Cantonese to varying degrees, and therefore classified Dongjiang dialect as Cantonese. Homologous with Cantonese in the Pearl River Delta. These dialects in the middle and upper reaches of Dongjiang River are collectively called "Dongjiang dialect" and classified as "Cantonese Uighur dialect". (Guangzhou disagrees)