Intergenerational Inheritance of Dialects of Immigrants: Based on the Survey of Guangzhou and Zhaoqing in China

This paper makes a field survey in Guangzhou and Zhaoqing of Guangdong in China in 2019 to understand the intergenerational inheritance of the dialects of migrant population. It is found that: (1) The original dialect of the immigrants has not been well inherited, which is mainly due to the low value recognition of the parents. And this situation is more obvious in Guangzhou. (2) In the inherited families, many children's dialectal ability is not as good as their parents' dialect level. (3) Most of the children inherited their father's dialect. The dialect protection of migrant population is the focus of language protection in the future.