1. In vocabulary, Cantonese is closer to Mandarin than Min.

2. Compared with Cantonese, Min dialect is closer to Mandarin.

3. Min dialect inherits the characteristics of ancient Chinese before Tang Dynasty, while Cantonese inherits the characteristics of ancient Chinese in Tang and Song Dynasties. Comparatively speaking, Min dialect is older than Cantonese.

4. The passing places are different.

Min dialect is mainly used in Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan Province and Hainan provinces, as well as in southern Zhejiang, southwestern Guangxi and some areas in Jiangsu and Jiangxi provinces.

Cantonese is mainly popular in China, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macao. In addition, Fujian people go to Southeast Asia, and some people in Southeast Asia also speak Min. Hong Kong has close ties with Europe, America and other places, so there are many Cantonese speakers in those countries.

Minnan dialect and Cantonese are two different dialects, and their pronunciation and vocabulary are very different, so they can't speak.

Extended data

The name of "Yue" comes from "Nanyue" in ancient Lingnan area of China (Hanshu as "Nanyue"). "Yue" is a generic term, and the old sayings "Yue" and "Yue" are interchangeable words. Tribes south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are often referred to as "Yue" in ancient books before Qin Dynasty, while they are called Baiyue and Baiyue in literature, including "wuyue" (southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang), "Min Yue" (Fujian) and.

After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the meanings of "Yue" and "Yue" began to differ. The former is mostly used in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Wu-speaking areas, while the latter is mostly used in Lingnan and Guangdong, which has long been a general term for Lingnan areas. Cantonese, also known as "vernacular" and "Cantonese" among the people, is called "Tang dialect" in Chinatown in the United States. The two common names "Guangfu dialect" and "provincial dialect" specifically refer to Cantonese in old guangzhou fu (now Guangzhou and its surrounding Nanfanshun area), Hong Kong, Macao, Wuzhou and Hezhou, which are smaller than the concept of "vernacular" and are generally called "Cantonese".

The tone of Cantonese is also very different from that of the north. There are six tones, one is clear, two are clear, three are clear, four are turbid, five are turbid and six are turbid. After that, promoting sound clarity is the high entrance, promoting sound clarity is the middle entrance, and promoting sound turbidity is the low entrance. Nine o'clock. Modern Cantonese grammar, such as "Shuida", "Dried Vegetable", "Renke", "Chicken Gong" and "Fish Sheng", all have a common grammatical structure, that is, adjectives are used as modifiers after nouns.

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