Why is Chaoshan dialect different from Chaozhou dialect? What's the story?

Chaozhou dialect, also known as Chaoshan dialect, is a sub-dialect of Minnan dialect in the eight major dialect areas of China, and chaozhou people dialect is also the oldest and most special dialect in China. Simple and elegant, rich in vocabulary and special in grammar, it retains the ancient meanings of many ancient words, and the language is vivid and humorous, which is very different from other languages. Therefore, it has attracted the attention of linguists at home and abroad. Many people have studied Chaozhou dialect, and there are also many monographs, dictionaries and dictionaries about Chaozhou dialect. Chaozhou dialect is a bond to maintain feelings and has great cohesion. Especially in foreign countries. The same accent is better than "one of our own".

Chaozhou dialect varies from place to place, and languages in different cities or regions have their own characteristics. The ancient Chaozhou dialect originated from the ancient Minnan dialect (Putian dialect). Chaozhou's pre-democracy mainly came from Putian people in southern Fujian, who migrated to Shantou in Chaozhou from the 9th century to18th century. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of Putian people from southern Fujian collectively moved south to eastern Guangdong, which is today's Chaoshan area. The main reasons for immigration are the overpopulation and land shortage in Putian since the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the war in southern Fujian (Putian) in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the late Yuan Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty to escape the war.

Due to geographical isolation, Chaozhou dialect has gradually developed into an independent dialect.

Chaozhou dialect is named after Chaozhou prefecture, which is the origin of its name. The ancient Chaozhou mansion includes Jiexi, Chaozhou, Shantou, Jieyang, Chaoyang, Puning, Chaoan, Raoping, Huilai and Chenghai. Both Tai Po and Fengshun in Hakka dialect areas have residents who speak Chaozhou dialect. And Raoping and other major Chaozhou dialect distribution areas, there are also residents who speak Hakka dialect. In addition, Chaozhou dialect is also spoken near the top three areas in Lufeng.

/kloc-from 0/8 to the 20th century, Chaozhou residents were one of the main ethnic groups of Chinese immigrants to Southeast Asia, so Chaozhou dialect became one of the main dialects of overseas Chinese. Therefore, many people in the Chinese community outside the Chaoshan area speak Chaoshan dialect.

Among them, many chaozhou people have settled in Thailand and Cambodia, becoming the largest Chinese ethnic group there. Chaozhou people has formed important ethnic groups in Hongkong, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia (especially Riau, North Sumatra, South Sumatra, Kundian and Chittagong in West Kalimantan). Some chaozhou people also live in Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe, some from Chaozhou and some from Southeast Asia.

However, with the popularization of globalization, the number of people who speak Chaozhou dialect as their mother tongue is gradually decreasing. Influenced by the same culture and media, many Chinese-Singaporean teenagers, whose mother tongue was Chaozhou dialect, switched to English, Chinese and Minnan dialect (which has some interoperability with Chaozhou dialect). 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 Chaoshan people are the second largest ethnic group of Chinese in Singapore, second only to Minnan people.