What dialect does Kunming dialect belong to?

Kunming dialect belongs to Southwest Mandarin-Yunnan Piece-Yunnan Piece.

Kunming dialect mainly refers to or is represented by Panlong, Wuhua, Guandu, Xishan and other Chinese dialects in Kunming, and sometimes covers the Chinese dialects in surrounding counties.

Kunming dialect is a Chinese dialect in the early Ming Dynasty, which is based on Jianghuai dialect and absorbs the characteristics of North China dialect and other Jiangnan provinces.

Kunming dialect and northern dialect are homologous. Generally, various dialects in Yunnan are mainly dialects of immigrants from a populous region, which are gradually formed by absorbing dialects of immigrants from other regions and languages of local residents.

It should be pointed out that the "indigenous language" here is the language of ethnic minorities. In addition, it is also influenced by geographical environment, historical evolution, administrative divisions and other factors. The same is true of Kunming dialect, whose formation is mainly related to the origin and composition of the Han population in Kunming.

Characteristics of Kunming Dialect

There are some other Chinese dialect words in Kunming dialect vocabulary, which have different colors from Chinese dialect. Here, it is mainly explained by words in Jianghuai dialect and Wu dialect.

Geographically, the Jianghuai area and the present Wu dialect area are connected, far away from the early Ming Dynasty, and it is likely that the languages of the two areas are relatively close; The source of Han residents in Kunming is mainly immigrants from these two areas in the early Ming Dynasty. Therefore, there are dialect slang in Jianghuai dialect and Wu slang in Kunming dialect vocabulary.

There are a large number of archaic words in Kunming dialect, which is a factor that constitutes elegance. In addition, old Kunming people are polite and often use honorifics when talking with others. There are many elegant words in daily conversation. "Da" refers to words with clear meaning and proper use, which can accurately express thoughts and feelings. The so-called "purity" means that there are few weird and obscene things between the lines, and there is no ugly mantra.

As for some commonly used prepositions, modal particles and auxiliary words, such as "ai" and "Gai", they look a bit vulgar, but they are not filthy. "Yada" and "Chun" are particularly prominent in the appellation of Kunming dialect and many famous things.