Do dialects have protective value?

The significance of protecting dialects mainly lies in protecting culture and respecting history. Dialect is a "living fossil" of culture to some extent. Dialect, as a local culture, contains many local ethnic elements and has been passed down for hundreds of years. It has developed into a language art and a social phenomenon.

Protecting dialects means protecting intangible cultural heritage and China traditional culture.

Some people will compare the dialect "harmony and harmony" with "non-legacy". Many inheritors who use it are not scarce, and there are still a lot of rare cultural heritages to be protected. Moreover, the popularization of Putonghua has not been completely successful, so why spend time and energy to protect dialects?

The core point of this remark is that dialects have nothing to do with me or are not good for me. Dialect is meaningful only if the language is unified. If the culture is not unified, they will be divided, and no one will feel sorry for the disappearance of meaningless things, not to mention that they have not disappeared.

We can know where the problem of opposing the protection of dialects lies. Most non-legacy cultures had a similar development process before they came to today.

Why do you say that protecting dialects means protecting intangible cultural heritage, because dialects have already stepped into the threshold of intangible heritage.

Speaking Putonghua in public is actually in conflict with protecting dialects, which has to be admitted and there is no need to hide.

The more people speak a language, the stronger its vitality. If its range of activities is restricted, it is tantamount to chronic suicide. Moreover, if one speaks Mandarin, one will speak less dialects, especially today when there are few children.

Dialect has been circulated for hundreds of years by folk spontaneous education. In modern times, large-scale collective education has begun, and cultural convergence is the general direction. Modern people's concept of time is so urgent that it is too late to teach children to do homework. How can they have time to teach dialects? And there is no cost-effective teaching environment. Even in Guangzhou, it is rare to hear communication between primary school students in Cantonese. Maybe it's only a matter of time before the communication environment of Northeast dialect will be better.

So, why protect dialects? Because dialects have quickly died out at a visible speed, it won't be long before they become real intangible heritage. It's only ten, twenty or hundreds years later.

If there is protective value, then dialect has protective value, that's all.