现代的语言学认为,方言是语言的变体。同属一种语言的方言有共同的历史来源,共同的词汇和语法结构,其现代的形式在语音上必定有互相对应的关系。方言(dialect)又可分地域方言和社会方言两大类。地域方言是语言的地域变体,一般说来,同一种地域方言集中分布在同一个地区,也有移民 Modern linguistics holds that dialects are variations of language. Dialects belonging to the same language have common historical sources, common vocabulary and grammatical structures, and their modern forms must have corresponding phonetic relations. Dialect (dialect) can be divided into two major categories of dialects and social dialects. Local dialects are geographical variations of language. Generally speaking, dialects of the same type are concentrated in the same area and also have immigrants