Baihua is the common name for Cantonese, and in general, Baihua and Cantonese can be seen as the same language. The difference between Cantonese and Hakka is mainly due to the difference in the original elements used in the formation as well as the process of formation, and therefore there is a big difference between the pronunciation of Cantonese and Hakka.

Cantonese is a fusion of the ancient Central Asian languages with the ancient Yue language, which has a complete set of nine tones and six keys, and retains many features of the ancient Chinese language. Cantonese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages, and its name comes from the ancient Chinese term for the south, Yue or Yue.

The Hakka dialect is a unique language of the Hakka people of the Han race, retaining some of the pronunciation of She and Old Chinese, but it is itself a product of multi-ethnic and multi-language fusion. Hakka has a long history, and it is generally believed that it was initially finalized in the Southern Song Dynasty, while it was officially named Hakka in the 20th century.

Expanded Information

Cantonese, which is mainly spoken in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, and Macao, originated as an elegant language in the Central Plains in ancient times, and then spread to the Guangdong and Guangxi regions during the Qin and Han Dynasties, where it blended with the local South Vietnamese people to form a language. It originated from the ancient Chinese language of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and is the language with the most ancient Chinese elements in China. Cantonese*** has nine tones, which are more ancient than the four tones of Mandarin.

Hakka is the native language of the Han Chinese Hakka people (including the Hakka people of the eastern part of Guangdong, the people of the water source of the Dongjiang River, the people of the western part of Guangdong - Guinan Ya, and the people of Guangdong in Sichuan), and it is distributed in a very wide area, spreading across the southeastern coast of China, the south, the west, and other provinces, Hong Kong's northern part of the New Territories, Taiwan, and the areas of Hakka migrants from overseas (e.g., in New Malaya and Thailand, Indonesia, and Europe and the United States, among other countries).

Baidu Encyclopedia - Cantonese

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