中国方言简介(英文版)

area of distribution
Gudong /Zhejiang/Taiwan
（闵语）
distribution
（分布）
• Fujian dialect, min dialect, or most in fujian, Taiwan, guangdong province, chaoshan area and east sea southwest of leizhou peninsula, gaozhou county, white, southeastern, Hong Kong, hainan, guangxi, zhejiang wenzhou area in southeast part of, and their compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao and southeast Asian countries, Taiwan, more than 80% of the people originally from fujian.
ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ现状）
• China and use the total population of about eighty million minutes on both sides of the Taiwan straits. Due to internal differences of min dialects, usually divided into the northern language word min (representative), mindong, fujian (fuzhou dialect, represented by) (xiamen of fujian and Taiwan and Taiwan's remarks represent by cavity); Putian dialect (putian), teochiew, leizhou dialect and fujian dialect, the words, words, northern Lebanon, hainan wenchang words and fujian branch. Retain a large number of ancient Chinese, min min dialect is academic thought to be the most close to the modern Chinese dialect of ancient China, is the only incomplete and medieval Chinese dialect is directly corresponding to the dialect of striking. Language is influence fujian mindong, putian, hokkien.
Hakka
Min Dialect
Wu Dialect
Cantonese
Northern Mandarin
Hakka
History：Henan and Shanxi Province
Develop：Hakka in the southern Song
Dynasty period preliminary shape(初步形 成). The voice on the basis of the inheritance （继承）of ancient Chinese, regular change happened.
the Wu dialect
吴语
area of distribution
Wu, also called wu yue language. The main distribution in southern jiangsu, Shanghai, zhejiang, anhui, jiangxi in the northeast . About more than 9000 people use Wu .
Top：Hakka was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom （太平天国） "mandarin", is widely used for its official documents
NOW
Hakka is considered to be one of the fastest decline （衰落） language on earth Due to the increase of the regional cultural and economic exchanges, it is widely use mandarin（官话）.
• Min dialects phonetic features include: the ancient turbidity unaspirated most reading "known" silent, initials read "the end" of the group; Part of the "box" mother read parents "group"; Light lip regardless of (f, v - such as the first letter); Even read tone sandhi is relatively developed, there are other parts even read metaphone phenomenon; White variant pronunciation is very rich, have read and white system gender differences. Min dialects from different periods in ancient Chinese phonology overlap again and again