Fujian people can't understand what they are saying.

Fuzhou dialect (Pinghua word: Hók-ci? 0? 9-u？ ) belongs to the branch of Min dialect in Chinese, is the representative of Min Dong sub-dialect, and is also the mother tongue used by Fuzhou people. It is the lingua franca of "City One" in the lower reaches of Minjiang River, and it is a representative dialect in the whole eastern Fujian. Fujian dialect is one of the eight major dialects in Chinese, which was stereotyped in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Fuzhou dialect plays an important role in Fujian dialect. Fuzhou natives usually refer to this language as Pinghua (Pinghua word: Bàng-u? ), meaning "language used in daily life", is usually called "Pinghua" by the locals and locals in Fuzhou dialect area. That is, the Jin 'an dialect brought by the people of the Central Plains who sought refuge in the middle and lower reaches of the Minjiang River in the Western Jin Dynasty can also be called "Jin 'an dialect" because Fuzhou was called "Jin 'an County" at that time, and many U middle sounds in Fuzhou dialect were brought by immigrants in the early Han Dynasty, such as: Xiang: Suo ~ng. Although Fuzhou dialect is officially defined as a dialect, from the perspective of linguistic definition, Fuzhou dialect is so different from standard Chinese that even people who speak other branches of Fujian dialect can't understand it. In this sense, Fuzhou dialect is a language rather than a dialect. Fuzhou dialect is mainly used in the middle and lower reaches of Minjiang River Basin in southeast China (including its tributaries Dazhangxi River Basin and Gutian River Basin), covering 1 1 counties and cities, namely Fuzhou, Minhou, Changle, Lianjiang, Yongtai, Minqing, Luoyuan, Fuqing, Pingtan, Pingnan, Gutian and overseas Fuzhou. Coverage accounts for one-fifth of the area of Fujian Province. Lianjiang County (Mazu) in Taiwan Province Province, China also uses Fuzhou dialect. Today, the two cities and five counties (Fuan, Ningde, Zhouning, Shouning, Zherong, Xiapu and Fuding) under the jurisdiction of Ningde area can also be understood. As for northern Fujian, such as Youxi, Jian 'ou, Shaxian, Shunchang and Jiangle. Fuzhou dialect is the second dialect, and overseas Chinese who went out from the eastern Fujian dialect area spread Fuzhou dialect all over the world. As Fuzhou emigrated overseas, Fuzhou dialect also spread to Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and the United States, becoming one of the most influential Chinese languages overseas. Fuzhou dialect has many sources. Ancient Chinese and Middle Chinese obviously remain in Fuzhou dialect, which is mainly due to the large-scale immigration in the history of Han, Jin and Tang Dynasties, as well as the remnants of Guqi and Gujin languages. Fuzhou dialect and Jin dialect today also have the characteristics of * * * *-foot-cutting words. * * * together to form this dialect. In the past 300 years, great changes have taken place in the vowels, phonetic changes and vocabulary of Fuzhou dialect. But this change is extremely slow. Because of this, Fuzhou dialect has its own characteristics. In terms of phonology, there are often many pronunciations of words with the same phonology in Fuzhou dialect in ancient times, and these different pronunciations often reflect the phonetic characteristics of different times. In terms of pronunciation, it is very common to have several pronunciations of a word in Fuzhou dialect, some of which belong to literal pronunciation, some of which are pronounced at different levels because of word formation in different times, and some of which are changed to distinguish the meaning. From the perspective of language structure, due to the constraints of the phonetic system itself and vocabulary grammar, the pronunciation of Fuzhou dialect contains a series of phonetic changes, including tone sandhi, rhyme, tone sandhi and light tone.