平话是独立方言还是属于粤方言?

Is Pinghua an Independent Dialect or Affached to Yue Dialects?

平话与粤语的三个相似语音特征只是它们早期共同关系的反映，而更多存在的十八个相异语音特征和人称代词、亲属称谓、人体器官称谓等基本词汇的系统差异则表明经过长期的发展，平、粤两种方言已各自成为独立的姐妹方言。历史行政区划、移民、交通和分布（方言岛）形式等则是造成它们相互独立的非语言因素。

The three similar phonetic features are simply the reflection of the cornmon re lationship of these two dialects in their early stages while the eighteen different phonetic fea tures and the systematic differences of the fundarnental vocabulary, the personal pronouns, the kinsfolk addresses, the names of human organs indicate that, after a long period of development, the two dialects have become two different and independent dialects. In addition, four extra linguistic factors are examined to explain the causes of the independence of the two dialcets: Ⅰ)the historially administrative division of region; Ⅱ) immigrants; Ⅲ) transportation and Ⅳ) the forms of distribution (speech island).