Hakka dialect in Meixian county is more authentic, and it is also pleasant to hear, soft and comfortable.
Because Meixian dialect in Meizhou city has many characteristics of Hakka dialects, Meixian dialect in Meizhou city is the standard pronunciation recognized by the Hakkas all over the world.
most of the Hakka announcers in china national radio are selected from five kilometers of Meicheng Fiona Fang and Songkou Town of Meixian County. The Dictionary of Hakka Dialects has also been revised and published, and Hakka dialect has become an important "emotional bond" to maintain the Hakka people in the world. Many overseas Hakka people who have been away from their native land for many years are proud that their local accent has not changed.
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Hakka dialects are developed from ancient Chinese. Experts have found that there are many similarities between today's Hakka dialect and standard Mandarin. As far as the four or five thousand words commonly used in Chinese characters are concerned, about 4% of them are not very different from Hakka dialect in pronunciation. Hakka dialect retains the main components and phonetic features of Central Plains ancient Chinese, and is called the "living fossil" of Central Plains ancient Chinese in Tang and Song Dynasties.
Hakka dialect has preserved many old sayings. For example, "Australia" and "Guangya" say: "Australia, language is also." Hakka dialect calls language disputes "Australian affairs". Hakka dialects have many ancient meanings. For example, Hakkas call eating breakfast "eating at the court", and Zuo Zhuan has "eating at the court"; Another example is that the Hakkas call "the dawn" "the sky is just white", and "the sky is just white" means "the sky begins to turn white".
Hakka dialect preserves many ancient pronunciations, and there are rules to follow. Qian Daxin, a linguist in the Qing Dynasty, put forward that "there is no light lip sound in ancient times", "help others to be bright" and "not to be humble" in his New Records of Ten Driving, Zhai and Yang. In ancient times, the light lip sound of modern Mandarin was pronounced as heavy lip sound. In Hakka dialects, the pronunciation of "flying" is like "humble", "back" is like "generation", and "helping" is like "pu" and "fat" is like "skin", all of which are the same as in ancient times.