Nl doesn't care where you come from.

In Anhui, there will be some Anhui people in southern Anhui who don't know nl. The dialects near northern Anhui are all Central Plains Mandarin, which is very similar to Mandarin. Everyone knows nl.

Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui. People in these four places can't tell the difference between N and L in Mandarin, and the computer will say that they are old and so on.

The dialect where nl is not divided is Hunan, and there are basically no initials of N in Hunan, and all N are L sounds.

Shao Zesui: Chu in history was a big country in the south. At first, it was only in a small area in the south, namely the Jianghuai area. With the development of national strength, it gradually expanded to the whole southern region including the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Hunan and Hubei are the core areas of Chu, and they also spread to Henan, Guangxi, Anhui and half of Jiangsu. However, the territory of Chu changed, sometimes it was seized by the enemy, and sometimes it was annexed by other small countries. For example, Huanggang, Huangzhou, Huangshi, Huangmei and Huangpi in Hubei originally belonged to a small country called Guo Huang, which was later annexed by Chu, but these place names still retain the word "yellow". Chu claims that its territory is "five thousand Li", which means that the whole Yangtze River basin or the area south of the Yellow River can be counted as the territory of Chu. This is the concept of Chu.

Chu should be a different nationality from Huaxia nationality in the Central Plains at the earliest. When Xiong, the king of Chu, went to the hospital, he said, "I'm a barbarian, and I don't have the same surname as China." . "Barbarian" is an uncivilized nation, and "not in the name of China" means something different from the Central Plains culture. Chu should have originated from a remote place in the south, and it was called "Chu nationality" at that time, which was a concept juxtaposed with "Huaxia nationality". Later, Chu occupied the whole Yangtze River basin, and Chu culture gradually blended with the culture of the Central Plains, absorbing the culture of the Chinese nation.

This blending began in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and there are many Chu dialects in The Book of Songs. The Chu nationality in Shang and Zhou Dynasties is no longer an independent nationality, but has been integrated into the Huaxia nationality, but still retains some dialects of the Chu nationality as the underlying language. Take the Qing people as an example. After entering the Central Plains, Manchu in Qing Dynasty gradually disappeared, but some Manchu words still remained in Chinese. For example, "Jiamusi" means "post station" in Manchu, and "Hal" in "Harbin" means "Jiang" in Manchu. Therefore, this new language after the blending of Chu and Xia forms Chu language, and the core areas of Chu language are Hunan and Hubei.

How did the Chu language change later? First, the "Yongjia Rebellion" in the Western Jin Dynasty, the nobles in the north moved south, forming the situation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the northern dialect covered the original Chu language area; Second, the "An Shi Rebellion" in the Tang Dynasty, the northern Han aristocratic group moved south, and the situation of confrontation between the north and the south was formed. The northern dialect once again covered the original Chu dialect area and formed the later Southwest Mandarin, which means that the foundation of Southwest Mandarin was laid in the Tang Dynasty.

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Now the largest dialect in Hubei and the second largest dialect in Hunan is Southwest Mandarin. The so-called "Mandarin" is the concept of northern dialect. Southwest Mandarin belongs to the northern dialect, but it also has the colors of the southern dialect, such as nasal and lateral sounds, flat tongue and upturned tongue, and some front nasal and rear nasal sounds.

Sanlian Life Weekly: Are the colors of these southern dialects the characteristics of Chu dialect?

Shao Zesui: Yes, it is a feature of Chu dialect that nasal sounds and side sounds are indistinguishable. In addition, there are some words, such as "di", which are still used as basic words in Cantonese. There is a program in Guangdong called "News Everyday". Mao is a typical Chu dialect. There is a saying in "Songs of the South Shan Gui" that "there is both sorrow and smile". "Mao" means "look sideways", and beautiful women are generally embarrassed to look straight. In the Tang Dynasty, the meaning of "Mao" changed to "looking at it carefully", such as "But when she thanked him, her eyes shone with deep love" in Song of Eternal Sorrow, but at present, the meaning of "Mao" was only inherited by Cantonese. Only a few words in Hubei dialect have retained this usage. For example, a girl's face is delicate and beautiful, so we call it amethyst.

Generally speaking, Guangdong and Fujian have inherited more Chu dialect words than Hubei, because Guangdong and Fujian are relatively remote and can retain more ancient colors. Cantonese basically retains the phonetic pattern of Tang and Song Dynasties, including closed rhyme, voiced sound and entering tone, but it has basically disappeared in Hubei dialect except for a few surrounding areas. Therefore, dialect has the function of preserving ancient times, and can preserve ancient "elegant language"