Why is Wenzhou Minnan dialect the same as Quanzhou Shuitou Minnan dialect?

Because they are all in southern Fujian. Ha ha.

Minnan dialect is distributed in Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Datian and Youxi in southern Fujian, Longyan, Zhangping and Dongshan Island in western Fujian, as well as Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taoyuan, Miaoli, Keelung, Nantou, Pingtung, Changhua, Hualien, Chiayi, Yilan, Yunlin, Taitung, Hsinchu and Taiwan Province provinces. The user population is nearly 30 million. Shantou, Chaozhou, Chenghai, Chaoan, Raoping, South Australia, Puning, Huilai, Chaoyang, Jieyang, Jiedong, Jiexi, Liuhe, Shanwei, Lufeng and Haifeng in the east of Guangdong Province. The user population is about100000. Zhanjiang, Haikang, Xuwen, Suixi, Lianjiang, Maoming, Wuchuan, Dianbai and other counties and cities in Leizhou Peninsula in southern Guangdong have a population of over 4 million. The population of Haikou, Qiongshan, Wenchang, Tunchang, Qionghai, Ding 'an, Wanning, Chengmai, Changjiang, Dongfang, Ledong, Lvshui, Baisha, Yaxian, Baoning, Qiongzhong, Lingao and Danxian in Hainan Province exceeds 4 million. In Wenzhou, Cangnan, Pingyang, Taishun, Dongtou, Yuhuan and other counties and cities in Zhejiang, about 6.5438+0.5 million people speak Minnan dialect. About 40,000 people speak Minnan in Huzi Town, Sanqing Township and Nanshan Township, Yushan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province. The Minnan Island in other areas of Shangrao has almost disappeared, and it has been basically assimilated by the local language for the language of the elderly. No more than 65,438+10,000 people speak Minnan in Shangrao. Nearly 300,000 people in Liuzhou, Pingnan, Pingle, Luchuan and other cities and counties in Guangxi speak Minnan dialect. There are hundreds of thousands in Hong Kong and Macao. Overseas Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia have a population of at least100000. Minnan can be spoken all over Singapore, but the local elderly English speakers are not very good at it. Chinese is also an important local auxiliary language.