Chaoshan and Minnan Relations

The relationship between Chaoshan dialect (also called Chaozhou dialect) and Minnan dialect is mainly caused by population migration between the two places. The relationship between Chaoshan dialect and Minnan dialect in the development process is as follows:

Chaoshan dialect is widely used in Chaoshan area of eastern Guangdong and overseas Chinese, belonging to a well-known branch of Fujian language family, which is very different from Minnan dialect in Fujian, Taiwan and Fujian. Grammar, like Fujian and Taiwan films, has a high degree of vocabulary correspondence, but there are obvious differences in pronunciation and intonation, which makes it difficult to communicate with each other.

Chaoshan dialect contains many ancient Chinese elements, which originated from Minnan dialect (Putian dialect). At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of Putian people in southern Fujian migrated to today's Chaoshan area because they fled the war. At the end of Tang Dynasty, Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, Putian people migrated to Chaoshan one after another, and the scale was the largest in the last year of Southern Song Dynasty, so the rest were ancient Chinese.

With the popularization of globalization, the number of people who speak Chaozhou dialect as their mother tongue is gradually decreasing, and they are influenced by the same culture and media. For example, many Chinese-Singaporean teenagers whose mother tongue is Chaozhou dialect have switched to English and Chinese. Chinese has gradually replaced Chaozhou dialect and become the mother tongue of young people. Nevertheless, Chaozhou dialect is still the mother tongue of many Chinese in Singapore, and chaozhou people is the second largest ethnic group of Chinese in Singapore, second only to Minnan natives.

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Linguistic features of Chaoshan dialect;

To sum up, Chaozhou dialect is characterized by special grammar, rich vocabulary, unique phonology and many ancient semantics. There are four kinds of ancient tones: Ping, Shang, Qu and Ru, and Chaozhou dialect is divided into Yin Ping, Yin Shang, Yin Qu, Yin Ru, Yang Ping, Yang Shang, Yang Qu and Yang Ru.

Guests call people guests, hens call hens, typhoons call typhoon platforms, walking calls walking, iron pots call ding, and bottles call bottles. Chaozhou dialect retains the characteristics of ancient Chinese. Chaozhou dialect has multiple meanings, and a word "eat" covers almost all oral food actions such as drinking (smoking), drinking (drinking) wine, eating (chewing) sugar cane and drinking (drinking) water.

Chaozhou dialect is simple and elegant, with the above characteristics, which has long attracted the attention of linguists at home and abroad, making many people study Chaozhou dialect, and there are also many monographs, dictionaries and dictionaries about Chaozhou dialect. Chaozhou dialect has been paid more and more attention by linguists. A whole set of text reading system of Chaozhou dialect is gradually integrated with modern Chinese, which makes Chaozhou dialect not only retain its own unique phonology, but also not difficult to understand.

Baidu encyclopedia-Chaozhou dialect

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