Characteristics of dialects in China

Basically, dialects can be divided into several categories:

1. Northern dialects?

It is customarily called "official language". There are Northeastern Mandarin, Northwestern Mandarin, Jinhua, Southwestern Mandarin, and so on. Represented by the Beijing dialect, including the north of the Yangtze River, Zhenjiang above Jiujiang below the river zone, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Hubei, Hunan provinces in the northwestern part of the northern part of Guangxi, the use of the population accounted for more than 70% of the total number of Han Chinese.

2. Xiang dialect?

The Changsha dialect, represented by the Changsha dialect, is distributed in most parts of Hunan Province, and its speakers account for 40% of the total Han population.

3. Wu dialect?

The Wu dialect is known as "Wunong", and is represented by Shanghainese (or Suzhou dialect). It is spoken in the south of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province and in the east of Zhenjiang (Zhenjiang is not included) in most of Zhejiang Province. It is spoken by about 8.4% of the total Han Chinese population.

4. Southern Fujian dialect?

The Xiamen dialect, represented by the Xiamen dialect, is spoken in the southern part of Fujian Province, the eastern part of Guangdong Province and part of Hainan Province, as well as in most of Taiwan Province. Many overseas Chinese in the South China Sea also speak the Minnan dialect, which accounts for about 3% of the total number of Han Chinese.

5. Cantonese dialect?

The Cantonese dialect is represented by the Guangzhou dialect, which is distributed in most parts of Guangdong Province and southeastern Guangxi. Most of our compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and overseas Chinese in Nanyang and some other countries speak Cantonese, and the population accounts for about 5% of the total number of Han Chinese.

Basic Information:

Dialects are variations of language, which can be divided into regional dialects and social dialects according to their nature. Regional dialects are variations of language due to regional differences, and they are different regional branches of the whole dialectal language, which is a reflection of the unbalanced development of language in the region. Social dialects are different social variants formed by the social members in the same region because of the social differences in occupation, class, age, gender, culture and education. For example, <guilty of pulling, guilty of poverty, guilty of disease,> and so on, many cities have a lot of different local dialects are more characteristic.