Why do Guangxi people speak so many dialects?

Not because people in Guangxi can speak many dialects, but because there are many dialects in this province of Guangxi. For example, Guilin and Liuzhou speak Southwest Mandarin, which is basically similar to the dialects of Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou, while the dialects spoken in Nanning, Beihai and Wuzhou are vernacular, that is, Cantonese around us, which is basically not much different from Cantonese in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and can communicate with each other, while the western regions such as Baise in Guangxi say that.

I believe everyone knows about this province of Guangxi. Although it is an autonomous region, it is also known as one of the Guangdong and Guangxi regions. Because of its beautiful scenery and distinctive local ethnic culture and humanities, it attracts many tourists to visit Guangxi all year round. Beihai, Guilin and other places are famous tourist cities, but many netizens are puzzled. Why do Guangxi people around us speak so many dialects? Some people in Guangxi can speak Cantonese, while others in Guangxi can speak Sichuan dialect. Of course, there are also ethnic minorities in Guangxi who speak their own languages. In view of this problem, I just want to say that it is not that Guangxi people know many dialects, but that the dialects of each city are different. There is no fixed Guangxi dialect in Guangxi.

For example, if you travel to Guilin, Liuzhou and other places, you will find that the dialect spoken here is basically the same as that in Chongqing, Sichuan, which can be said to be very easy to understand. This area belongs to the southwest mandarin dialect area, so people here think they are speaking Sichuan dialect in other cities, but when they arrive in Nanning, the capital, and Beihai and Fangchenggang on the southern coast, the dialect here is mainly vernacular. That is to say, Cantonese, which is common around us, is actually Cantonese, although it is different from Cantonese, but it is different from Hong Kong and Guangzhou, but it can also be communicated with Guangdong natives. For example, Zhejiang people can communicate with each other in dialects when they go to Shanghai and southern Jiangsu.

Western Guangxi, such as Baise, is close to Yunnan and Guizhou, so there are many ethnic minorities, including Miao and Zhuang. Guangxi is originally a Zhuang autonomous region, so Zhuang people account for a large proportion of Guangxi's population. Therefore, the western part of Guangxi is dominated by minority languages, generally Zhuang and Miao, which we Han people can't understand, because it is not a language family with Chinese at all, but with Dai people.