Among these three groups, the local people have the largest population (about 80%) and the strongest economic strength. Before liberation, there was no intermarriage or even discrimination between the local people and Tujia and Hakka people, especially the discrimination of the local people against the other two residents.
I don't need to introduce the local residents, mainly distributed in Humen, Houjie, Guancheng and Qiaotou. Every town has different degrees of dialect differences, and even it is difficult to communicate with each other.
Shatian dialect is actually the dialect of Jia Dan (a kind of water dweller), which is mainly distributed in the coastal areas of Shatian, Wan Xin, Hongmei, Wangniudun and Zhonghu.
Hakka dialect, commonly known as "Xiajiahua" by local people, is mainly distributed in hilly and mountainous areas in the southeast, such as Zhangmutou, Qingxi and Fenggang. Hakka dialect is scattered in eastern and southern towns.
The local minority residents first settled in Dongguan, and their economic, cultural and educational level was much higher than that of the other two ethnic groups before liberation. However, due to the long time of localization and settlement, the internal differences are very obvious. The older generation of Dongguan people generally only speak local dialects when communicating between towns, with many differences, but they can communicate. The younger generation of Dongguan people from different towns prefer to communicate in Cantonese.
Houjie dialect is not an independent school. Chiling, which was handed over to Cheng Nan, and Bai Hao, which borders Humen, obviously have a foreign accent. Houjie dialect and Waizhen dialect have no Chu-He Han boundary.
As the saying goes, different voices come from different mountains.
Actually, it's the same everywhere. If you go deep into Hunan, or a small county in Jiangxi, and you know their local language, you will find that it is all like this.
This is also the place where language is extremely interesting.