Ganzhou+other provinces+immigrants

Correction: According to the data of Guangdong provincial government, there are nearly 40 million people who speak Cantonese (vernacular), 6.5438+0.7 million people speak Minnan dialect (including Chaoshan dialect and Leizhou dialect) and 6.5438+0.5 million people speak Hakka, so the Hakka population ranks third in the province, not second (many people ignore Leizhou dialect and belong to Minnan language family). Therefore, Cantonese accounts for about 55% of the population, while Minnan and Hakka account for about 45%. Where did it come from? Many Hakkas deliberately exaggerate the population of Hakkas, and it is time to correct it. Don't think that in terms of distribution area, Hakka dialect accounts for 3/6, Cantonese accounts for 2/6, and Chaoshan+Leizhou accounts for 1/6. You know, the Hakka area is vast and sparsely populated. One Meizhou city is larger than the sum of the seven cities in the Pearl River Delta, but the registered population is only 5 million (excluding Fengshun County 165438+). There are only about 3 million people in Heyuan (Dongjiang dialect belongs to Hakka dialect for the time being, so if we respect the wishes of Dongjiang locals, we should independently form a Cantonese Huihe dialect), and Huizhou has 3.8 million (including more than 500,000).

Moreover, Hakka dialect is widely used in the world? Then why is vernacular limited to Guangdong? Do you know that in foreign countries, especially in North America and Western Europe, westerners know two kinds of Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese-Cantonese)? Cantonese is distributed in central and western Guangdong, southeastern Guangxi, parts of Hainan and Hong Kong and Macao. In addition, nearly 90% of overseas Chinese in the United States, Canada, Central and South America, Britain, Ireland and other countries come from Cantonese-speaking areas in Guangdong (including Hong Kong). Cantonese is spoken in Chinatown (it used to be Taishan dialect, but now it is mainly Cantonese), while there are more Chaoshan people in France, Italy and Spain and Wenzhou people in Zhejiang. In Southeast Asian countries, the number of Cantonese speakers (Cantonese speakers in a narrow sense) also ranks second (mainly distributed in Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and a small part of Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia), and Chaoshan people rank third (most of Thailand and Cambodia and a small part of other countries). I don't know which of Hakka dialect and Hainan dialect ranks fourth and fifth, but it certainly won't rank in the top three.

Besides, Hakka has a longer history than Cantonese? Minnan dialect (Xiamen dialect, Taiwan dialect, Chaoshan dialect, etc. ) has a longer history than Cantonese, with more ancient Chinese elements, but Cantonese retains the most ancient Chinese elements in Chinese dialects, and is closest to Sui and Tang Chinese (of course, it is also mixed with a lot of Baiyue). Hakkas claim to be descendants of the Central Plains people who moved south since the Song Dynasty (in fact, they are mixed with a large number of She ethnic origins, and the language is highly similar to the She ethnic dialect), so they have retained many characteristics of Li and Song Chinese. Another point of view: Among the seven dialects in China, Wu dialect and hometown dialect were formed the earliest, followed by Min dialect and Cantonese, followed by Gan dialect, Xinxiang dialect and Hakka dialect, and finally Mandarin.

The vernacular is called Cantonese or Cantonese because of geographical and historical factors (originated in Guangdong, mainly used in Guangdong) and realistic social and economic factors (the largest number of users, the greatest influence inside and outside the province, the highest popularity and the most developed media), but it does not mean that there is only one dialect in Guangdong Province, and the dialects in Guangdong Province can only be called "Cantonese Dialect". This is similar to many provinces in China (there are Hakka dialect, Gan dialect, Wu dialect and Mandarin in Fujian, but Min dialect definitely refers to Minnan dialect in Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, Mindong dialect in Fuzhou, Minzhong dialect in Sanming, Minbei dialect in Jian 'ou and Puxian dialect in Putian, etc. No one will think that Hakka dialect in Tingzhou, western Fujian belongs to one of Fujian dialects, and no one has ever seen people in Tingzhou competing to speak it. Hunan dialect is divided into Xiang dialect, Southwest Mandarin, Gan dialect, Xiangnan dialect, Hakka dialect and rural dialect according to the number of people, but only the dialects around Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, Changsha (new Xiang dialect) and Shuangfeng dialect (old Xiang dialect) are called Xiang dialect. Jiangxi dialect includes Gan dialect, Hakka dialect, Wu dialect, Hui dialect, Putonghua and Minnan dialect. However, it is generally recognized that most areas, represented by Nanchang, speak Gan dialect, and Hakka people in Ganzhou, southern Jiangxi, have never been seen competing for the title of Gan dialect. Why are only Hakkas in Guangdong so worried about Cantonese and Cantonese, and "correct" the vernacular ≠ Cantonese ≠ Guangdong for everyone? It should be noted that Chaoshan people and Leizhou people rarely have such crazy behavior. Most people think that Cantonese is the language of Guangfu people, and their own languages are Chaozhou dialect (Chaoshan dialect, Chaozhou dialect) and Leizhou dialect (Li dialect).

Guangdong's development is the result of the concerted efforts of Guangfu people, Chaoshan people+Helao people (Minnan dialect people in Shanwei, Huizhou, Qingyuan and Shaoguan)+Zhongshan Longdu people+Leizhou people, Guangdong Hakkas, native people in northern Guangdong and new immigrants from other provinces * * * Qi Xin. Therefore, only by uniting can we develop and build a more prosperous and beautiful new Guangdong.