What is Shaoguan dialect?

Shaoguan dialect, which belongs to Chinese Hakka dialect, is an accent of Hakka dialect distributed in the northeast Guangdong dialect area of Guangdong Province, mainly distributed in Lechang, Renhua, wengyuan county, Shixing, Nanxiong and Yangshan counties of Guangdong Province.

Shaoguan is the base of Hakka people, and Hakka dialect is the most popular dialect in this area. Hakka dialect is called Shaoguan dialect among Shaoguan people (different from old Shaoguan dialect). According to the fact that Shaoguan immigrants come from different regions, the dialects of Nanxiong, Renhua and Shixing in northeast Guangdong are classified as Hakka dialects, which are regarded as the old Hakka dialects extending from southern Jiangxi to northern Guangdong, but from Lechang, Qujiang and Ruyuan. Comrade Xiong once divided Hakka dialect in northern Guangdong into northern Guangdong and Shaonan in Guangdong and Taiwan. The dialects in northeast Guangdong, including Nanxiong Wujing and Renhua Changjiang, should also be classified as Hakka dialects in this area.