What dialect does Yiyang dialect in Hunan belong to?

Xiang dialect, also known as Xiang dialect, is used to saying that Hunan dialect is one of the seven major dialects in China. It is popular in most areas of Hunan Province and several Xiang dialect counties in northern Guangxi. It is distributed in most areas of Hunan province, and the users account for about 5% of the total number of Han people, about 46 million.

Changsha dialect is the main representative language in the northern part of Hunan dialect, with a population of about 3 million. The southern part is represented by Qiyang dialect, with a population of more than 2 million. Who lives in this dialect area belongs to Hunan dialect. The "mother tongue" of the Ho family and overseas Chinese who moved to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan from this dialect area should be Xiang dialect. Another representative language of Hunan dialect is Xiangxiang dialect.

Xiang dialect is mainly concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of Xiang and Zijiang river basins and along the Dongting Lake, with mixed dialects such as Shaoyang and Wugang as the transition to the southwest, including Chengbu and Suining, and Hengyang and Leiyang (although Leiyang is a southwest mandarin, it is highly mixed) as the transition to the southeast, including Yongxing and Zixing. As far as the whole phonology is concerned, these four points still belong to Xiang dialect, but they are not pure. The vowel system of Chengbu belongs to Putonghua system. Hunan dialect is popular in Yueyang, Nanxian, Miluo, Xiangyin, Yuanjiang, Yiyang, Taojiang, Anhua, Ningxiang, Changsha, Wangcheng, Zhuzhou, Xiangtan, Xiangxiang, Shuangfeng, Lianyuan, Loudi, Xinhua, Lengshuijiang, Xupu, Chenxi, Shaoyang, Shaodong, etc. In addition, counties such as Quanzhou, Guanyang, Ziyuan and Xing 'an in northern Guangxi also speak Hunan dialect. The estimated population is over 25 million.