Can your children still speak their hometown dialect? Will the inheritance of dialects be broken if children don't speak their hometown dialect?

My husband and I are from the Putonghua area and the other is from the non-Putonghua area. We have to speak Mandarin at home, otherwise chickens and ducks can't communicate at all. After graduation, we came to teach in a strange province. At school, teachers and students come from different provinces, and everyone speaks Mandarin in daily teaching and life. After the child was born, my husband and I brought him up with one hand, and until the child went to school, he basically had no contact with dialects. When children grow up, they will become children with zero dialect basis, and can't speak any dialect except Mandarin.

There are many children who can't speak their parents' hometown dialect. Many parents come from different regions, far away from each other's hometown, and work in a third place. This is almost always the case. For example, in our school, most teachers' children can't speak their parents' hometown dialect unless grandparents teach them to speak their hometown dialect when taking care of their children, which is very rare.

However, many language experts do not agree that children suffer too much language interference in early childhood, because it will affect the development of children's language ability. There is a child in our school. His parents and grandparents come from four different places. Everyone wants to teach their children to speak their hometown dialect. In this way, children can't speak normally until they are two or three years old. Therefore, for the development of children's language ability, adults will generally try to reduce the interference of hometown dialect on children's language ability development. As a result, in the end, most of the children in this family can only speak Mandarin and can't speak any hometown dialect.

This phenomenon has attracted the attention of some experts. They say that if children don't speak their hometown dialect for three generations, the inheritance of dialects will be broken, and the modern dialects in the future may only exist in some audio-visual materials. This kind of worry is not unreasonable.

Generally speaking, the changes between dialects and Putonghua are mainly reflected in the following aspects:

First, husband and wife come from different regions and work in a third place. The children born in this family can hardly speak their hometown dialect. There is a basic fault in the inheritance of a child's parents or mother's hometown dialect here.

Second, the husband and wife come from different regions and work in the hometown of one of them. Children born in this family can speak their hometown dialect in two ways. First, children can't speak their hometown dialect at all. Second, children can speak their parents' hometown dialect. Both of these situations will cause the fault of dialect inheritance.

Third, some children in dialect areas speak Mandarin under the guidance of their parents from childhood to metropolis, so that children will not speak their hometown dialect when they grow up. This situation will also affect the inheritance of dialects, leading to the inheritance fault of dialects. There will be more and more such phenomena in the future, because with the continuous development of society, people are more and more aware of the importance of Putonghua in daily communication. It is human nature that parents want their children to take the lead in development.

Fourth, some children in dialect areas speak Mandarin from kindergarten to primary school, middle school, university and even work. These children can speak hometown dialect, because they learned hometown dialect when they were young, and they can also speak hometown dialect with their parents at home. At present, such children should account for more than half of the next generation in China. This situation objectively will not cause the fault of dialect inheritance.

Among the above four situations, the first and second situations are mainly caused by China's cross-regional migration. According to the article "The Great Migration of China: 20 19" published in this paper, in 20 19 years, the population of urban and rural areas (rural to urban migration) alone will reach 1 100 million. Coupled with the migration between cities, the annual migration population in China is as high as 654.38+0.5 billion. That is to say, only in 20 19 years, there were as many as1500,000 immigrants in China. The next generation of these immigrants will probably stop speaking their hometown dialect, and the inheritance of dialects will be interrupted in a considerable probability after several generations.

With the development of China's economy, the population of China will move faster, and more children of immigrant families will not speak their hometown dialect, which will lead to the fault of dialect inheritance and make the population of Chinese dialect lose faster.

The third situation is the subjective choice of parents in dialect areas based on the importance of Putonghua, because Putonghua plays a very important role in children's study and daily communication. In order to make their children develop better, many parents will consciously guide their children to abandon their hometown dialect in early childhood and always speak Mandarin. This phenomenon is not uncommon in contemporary China. According to the survey, many children living in dialect areas can only speak Mandarin, but not their hometown dialect.

These three situations will cause children not to speak their hometown dialect, resulting in the fault of dialect inheritance. At present, the data of these three situations are rising rapidly, which will cause the data of the fourth situation to drop rapidly. In other words, more than half of the children may not speak their hometown dialect in the future. Moreover, with the development of society, there will be more and more children who can't speak their hometown dialect, the fault of dialect inheritance will be aggravated, and the loss of dialect will be more serious.

Some experts say that language is the carrier of culture, and the fault of dialect inheritance will lead to the fault of regional traditional culture, which makes sense. However, the way of cultural inheritance is not only through dialects, but also in more ways. Moreover, in modern society, with the continuous acceleration of social communication, the speed of cultural integration is also accelerating. In the process of cultural integration, many elements of regional traditional culture will inevitably be lost. Even if there is no dialect inheritance fault, there will be inheritance faults of some components in regional traditional culture.

In addition, the loss of dialects is a common phenomenon, not only in China, but also in other countries in the world. Not only in modern China, but also in ancient China. How many dialects in ancient China disappeared in the long river of history? In a sense, the loss of dialects is the inevitable result of the continuous development and progress of society. Because the essence of language is a communicative tool, any language loses its communicative function, and its disappearance will be the inevitable result.

Therefore, even if children can't speak their hometown dialect and there is a fault in dialect inheritance, we don't have to be too sad. Although we regret the gradual loss of diversity in Chinese, we should also rejoice in the rapid development of society.

In recent years, the relevant state departments have accelerated the pace of dialect rescue, and set up dialect rescue and research institutions in various dialect areas throughout the country to record and preserve local dialects by means of dialect investigation, sort out dialects and edit dialect dictionaries. Therefore, many years later, if our descendants want to know the dialects of their ancestral home, they can learn from the achievements of these dialects.

There are also some areas such as Suzhou, Nantong, Fujian and other places that suggest adding dialect courses in primary school classrooms to slow down the loss of dialects.

Dialect is a variety of language. It is precisely because of the existence of dialects that languages are rich in diversity and we can enjoy all kinds of fun brought by dialects. However, China has a vast territory and numerous regional dialects. If people use dialects in their daily communication, it will inevitably affect their daily communication. Therefore, whether for the needs of communication or social development, people will objectively need Putonghua when they go to the society and even China to the world.