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How are dialects formed?
Dialect is formed by many factors, including society, geography, history, itself and so on.

There are social, historical, geographical and other factors, such as long-term small-scale peasant economy, social division, population migration, mountains and rivers barrier and so on.

There are also factors that belong to the language itself, such as the imbalance of language development and the conflict and influence between different languages. There are various dialects in modern Chinese, which are widely distributed.

Among several dialects of modern Chinese in China, the northern dialect can be regarded as the development of ancient Chinese in the vast northern region after thousands of years, and the rest dialects are gradually formed by the continuous southward migration of northern residents in history.

The early Jiangnan area, mainly inhabited by the Guyue nationality, used Guyue language, which was far from ancient Chinese and could not speak.

Later, the Han people in the north went south several times on a large scale, bringing ancient northern Chinese in different periods, which spread to various regions in the south of the Yangtze River and gradually formed six dialects that were obviously different from each other.

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There are various dialects in modern Chinese, which are widely distributed. The differences between modern Chinese dialects are manifested in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, especially in pronunciation.

Chinese is divided into two categories according to its status: Mandarin and six other southern Chinese. Mandarin is not an independent language because it is very close to the common language in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, that is, modern Chinese, and English is called Mandarin-Chinese.

Other southern Chinese have no official language status, except Minnan dialect, Cantonese and northern Wu dialect, which are not standardized and are in a state of decline and disappearance.

Except for Min dialect and Cantonese, which retain many features of ancient Chinese, others can correspond to Guang Yun and belong to the descendants of ancient Chinese. To a great extent, Gan dialect is a descendant of Middle Northern Chinese, while Wu dialect and Xiang dialect may be descendants of Southern Chinese.

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