The most influential Chinese dialect overseas is spoken by 230 million people around the world. What language is it?

As for dialects, people everywhere have something to say. Refers to the "local language", also known as "vernacular" or "local dialect", which is the language of a certain area outside the standard language. Because the Han nationality experienced division and unification in different degrees in the development process, speaking Chinese gradually produced dialects. This is a unique national culture, which is often combined with a region and inherits a traditional culture that has appeared for thousands of years. Therefore, although it is said that Putonghua should be promoted, the protection of traditional dialects cannot be lost. This is the root of the nation and the most direct memory of people's hometown.

So how many dialects are there in China? In fact, this is difficult to count, because there are many complicated dialect areas in China, but these dialects can be divided into several "dialect pieces (also called sub-dialects)" because of different regions, and then pushed down in turn, and can be divided into "dialect pieces", and finally it is clear that they will arrive in a city, a county, a town or even a village, so there are countless dialects in China. Therefore, according to the Summary of China Language and Characters issued by the Ministry of Education on October 9, 20, Chinese dialects are usually divided into ten major dialects, namely, Mandarin dialect, Jin dialect, Wu dialect, Hui dialect, Min dialect, Cantonese dialect, Hakka dialect, Gan dialect, Xiang dialect and Pinghua dialect. So there is a question, which of these dialects in China has the greatest influence?

For this problem, in order to better reflect the differences, it is natural to make comparisons overseas. In recent years, "Chinese fever" has swept through many countries, and many countries are actively learning Chinese in China. But in fact, there are three dialects in China that have greater influence overseas than Mandarin. Do you know where they are?

This is the first undisputed Cantonese. If we directly speak China's most influential dialect overseas, we will undoubtedly speak Cantonese, which is also called Cantonese, and Guangfu dialect is also called Tang dialect and "vernacular". It is a dialect of Sino-Tibetan language family, the face of Guangfu people of Han nationality, and exists as the most important cultural carrier and cultural feature of Guangfu people. It has a complete set of nine tones and six tones, retains more features of ancient Chinese in China, has a complete word system, and can be directly expressed in Chinese characters. In addition to Putonghua, foreign universities have independently studied Chinese in China. Chinese in China is the fourth largest language in Australia, the third largest in the United States and Canada, the second largest in New Zealand, and the second largest in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. According to statistics, there are 65,438 languages in the world.

The second is Minnan dialect. Fujian is a melting pot of Chinese dialects. Although the area is small, there are many dialects, and they are all influential dialects in China. Among them, Minnan dialect is undoubtedly the best. Among the strong Fujian dialects, Minnan dialect is unique. It originated in the Luoshui Valley of the Yellow River, and then moved south to life in south, Fujian, where it preserved its own cultural foundation. In the Chinese family, it belongs to a kind of Min dialect, which has a great influence overseas. To some extent, Minnan is actually more influential than Cantonese, because more than 90 million of the 65.438+0.2 billion users of Cantonese are from Guangdong and Guangxi, and 80 million people all over the world use Minnan, of which there may be more overseas, mainly in Southeast Asia, the United States, Australia and other places.

The last one is Hakka dialect. Hakka dialect is the homonym of Han Hakkas and one of the seven dialects of Chinese in China. Han nationality is distributed in southern Jiangxi, western Fujian, eastern Guangdong and northern Guangdong, and is used in more than 0/0 provinces and cities in southern China, 180 counties and cities and 80 countries and regions such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and America, with a global population of 37 million.

In fact, it can also be seen that dialects with great influence overseas are mainly used in Fujian and Guangdong, with a total population of about 230 million. This is because Fujian and Guangdong have often developed abroad in history, and many of them have settled abroad in historical development, forming such a situation. I wonder how you evaluate this matter? Welcome to leave a comment.