What are the four major dialects in Guangdong?

Cantonese: the language of the Pearl River Delta;

Chaoshan dialect: the dialect of eastern Guangdong, namely Chaoshan dialect;

Hakka dialect: it is widely spread, but the authentic Hakka dialect is in Meixian county, Meizhou;

Ya dialect: the main dialects in Maoming, Yangjiang, Yangchun and Zhanjiang.

Cantonese, an elegant word originating from the ancient Central Plains, has a complete set of nine tones and six tones, perfectly retaining the characteristics of ancient Chinese. Cantonese is distributed in the Pearl River Delta and widely used in Chinese communities in China, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, Macau, North America, Britain, Europe and Australia, New Zealand, Christmas Island, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Among the nearly 80 million people in Guangdong Province, the core area of Cantonese, nearly 40 million people speak Cantonese, and the number of people who speak Cantonese in the world is about 70 million.

Chaozhou dialect, also known as Chaozhou dialect, Chaoshan dialect and Chaozhou dialect, belongs to Sino-Tibetan language family-Chinese language family? Branch of Min dialect-? Minnan dialect-Chaoshan film. It is distributed in the Chaoshan area (Chaozhou, Jieyang, Shantou and Fengshun County) along the eastern coast of Guangdong Province, and broadly includes the influx of people mainly from Shanwei and overseas Southeast Asia.

Hakka dialect is a unique language of Hakka people. Some pronunciations of She language and ancient Chinese are preserved, but they are the product of the integration of ethnic languages. Hakka dialect is called Hakka for short, and it is also called Hakka in informal occasions. In some areas, it is also called Ya dialect, Xinmin dialect, Cantonese (or Tukan dialect), Huaiyuan dialect, Huizhou dialect (Guangxi and other places) and so on. It is a kind of tonal language (international code: ISO 639-3 grams) in the Sino-Tibetan Chinese language family. Mainly distributed in eastern Guangdong, western Fujian and southwestern Jiangxi, it is widely used in some Chinese communities in southern China (including Taiwan Province Province) and Malaysian countries. Historically, Hakka used to be one of the main languages in Lanfang and China. Once the "national language" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it was widely used in its official documents.

Ya dialect is a Hakka dialect in western Guangdong and southern Guangxi. The population of Ya dialect in western Guangdong and southern Guangxi exceeds 5 million. However, because it is generally not distributed in the county or city center (except in Bobai, Luchuan and other minority areas), Yayan has long been influenced by the strong surrounding languages and has not formed a strong representative sound; With the development of the times (especially the acceleration of urbanization), Hakka dialects in Guangdong and other places are increasingly divided and gradually replaced by Cantonese, which needs urgent protection.