龙川话属于客方言补证

Lexical Evidence of Longchuan Dialect Belonging to Hakka Dialect

有学者认为龙川话属于粤方言。通过《汉语方言词汇》1230个基本词语为例,将龙川话与梅县话、广州话进行比较,结果表明,龙川话与梅县话核心词和基本词相同率高于它与粤方言的相同率。尽管龙川话受粤方言的影响可能越来越大,但词汇系统与客方言的共性较高,说明龙川话更接近梅县话。从词汇上也可证明龙川话属客家话无疑。

Longchuan dialect is regarded as Hakka by some people while as Cantonese by others.This paper will try to identify the genre of Longchuan dialect through the comparison of vocabulary of Longchuan,Meixian and Guangzhoue,according to the 1230 words of 36 kinds in Vocabulary of Chinese Dialects.The result shows that Longchuan dialect has 861 same or mainly same words as Meixian dialect,taking up 69.9% of total.And has 711 same or mainly same words as Guangzhou dialect,taking up 57.8% of total.From the data above we can see that Longchuan dialect belongs to Hakka rather than Cantonese.