Is Huizhou Dialect Cantonese, Hakka Dialect or Independent Dialect?

In fact, the attribution of Huizhou dialect has not yet been determined.

The tone of Huizhou dialect has many important similarities with the neighboring Guangzhou dialect, which is the representative of Guangzhou dialect. By observing the above tones, initials and finals, we can see that the pronunciation of Huizhou dialect is almost the same as that of Hakka dialect and Guangzhou dialect. The similarity between the two directions is a regular phenomenon. Huizhou dialect and Guangzhou dialect have more similarities. Therefore, Huizhou dialect is slightly biased towards Guangzhou dialect, close to Guangzhou dialect and far from Hakka dialect. Although the gap between Huiguang and Hui Ke is almost the same, Huizhou dialect is very similar to Taishan dialect in four Cantonese cities. This is also worth noting. Huizhou dialect is slightly close to Guangzhou dialect. By comparing with 423 special basic words in Huizhou dialect, Guangzhou dialect and Hakka dialect, it is concluded that: "In Huizhou dialect and Guangzhou dialect, the meaning is the same, the phonetic forms are similar or the same, which fully shows the same historical origin.

These special basic words have accounted for a considerable proportion in the commonly used words in Huizhou dialect and Guangzhou dialect, which has become the main embodiment of the basic vocabulary characteristics of the two languages; Their categories are very wide, except that most of them are units of verbs, forms and nouns, as well as time, adverbs, pronouns and quantifiers. Special basic words are so numerous and similar in nature that they can't be borrowed from two adjacent dialects (non-household, one side surrounding the other). Of course, some words in Huizhou dialect are the same as those in Hakka dialect. The affixes of Huizhou dialect are quite consistent with those of Guangzhou dialect. Both the word formation system and the morphological system show that Huizhou dialect is very close to Guangzhou dialect, but far from Hakka dialect.

Huizhou dialect and Guangzhou dialect have the same aspect category-aspect with the same category and grammatical meaning, and the morphological components of these aspects are very close to Guangzhou dialect in phonetic form; However, both the category of aspect and the morphological components of aspect are very different from Hakka dialect (only a small part is consistent). Huizhou dialect is close to Guangzhou dialect, but alienated from Hakka dialect. There is no doubt that it is a Cantonese dialect. The consistency and similarity of a large number of special basic words, grammatical components and grammatical structures with Guangzhou dialect not only denies the possibility that Huizhou dialect belongs to Hakka dialect, but also excludes the possibility that Huizhou dialect is an independent dialect that does not belong to Cantonese and Hakka dialect.

Some people think that Huizhou dialect is Hakka dialect and Huizhou dialect people are the ancestors of Hakka people, although it is quite doubtful. [5] Huizhou belongs to the sub-region of Dongjiang Hakka culture, and Huizhou dialect should belong to Hakka dialect. In ancient times, it was the Guyue people who lived in Huizhou.