What dialect does Hainan dialect belong to?

Hainan is a society composed of immigrants. Hainan Island was originally uninhabited. About 3000 years ago, a branch of the ancient Baiyue nationality crossed the Qiongzhou Strait from Guangdong and Guangxi to Hainan Island. This is the ancestor of the Li nationality today. Later, Han, Miao, Hui and other ethnic groups moved to Hainan one after another, gradually forming a multi-ethnic settlement in Hainan today.

After historical evolution, some characteristics of various ethnic groups are constantly being assimilated, but dialects, as the most basic characteristics of this nation, have been preserved and continued from generation to generation. Formed many Hainan dialects today.

Hainan dialect belongs to Minnan dialect of Sino-Tibetan language family, which is spoken by more than 5 million people in the province, accounting for about 80% of the total population of the province. This is the most widely used dialect in Hainan.

Mainly distributed in the coastal areas of Haikou, Qiongshan, Wenchang, Qionghai, Wanning, Tunchang, Chengmai and other cities and counties. In different places, the pronunciation and tone of Hainan dialect are different, but they can generally talk to each other.

Wenchang dialect is usually used as the standard pronunciation in Hainan dialect, as well as the standard pronunciation of Hainan dialect broadcast by radio and television stations and Hainan dialect announcers recruited for the exam. Hainan's traditional Qiongju opera is also sung with Wenchang accent.

Hainan dialect has a very complete set of grammar and pronunciation. There are sonic booms in Hainan dialect: [b] and [d]. It is rare in the pronunciation system of China Putonghua and various local dialects (the exclamation mark "tut" is an exception in special circumstances).

For outsiders, sonic booms need serious study and training to master. Because this means that in the process of pronouncing a syllable, it is very difficult to inhale briefly and then exhale. It's hard to master, not since childhood.

Dialect is a living fossil of history and culture. Due to geographical reasons, the languages and dialects of Hainan Island have their own unique development state. Not to mention unique languages, such as Li, Lingao, Cun and Mian ... As far as Chinese dialects are concerned, Hainan ranks fourth among the seven major dialects in China.

Hainan Island is a multilingual and multilingual area. The languages used on the island are Chinese, Lebanese, Lingao, village, Burmese, French and Zhuang. Besides Mandarin, Chinese also includes Hainan dialect, Danzhou dialect, Mai dialect, military dialect, Hakka dialect, Guangzhou dialect and Fuma dialect. Altogether, 14 languages and dialects cannot communicate with each other (there are five dialects in Li and two dialects in Lingao, not counting). We can say that Hainan is one of the provinces with the largest number of languages and Chinese dialects.