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Hakka Chinese

There are many more languages that the ones that were listed in the wikipedia page. One of them being Heshan Hakka(鹤山客家话). The reason why there are many dialects in the dialect is because of the migration of the Hakka people around different areas of China. The population that spoke the language gradually decreased because the lack of time people spent speaking it when Cantonese became the main language spoken in the area. Its unfortunate that mainly the older generation speaks the language, when it should be promoted to be spoken more because its a sign to remind the younger generation where they came from. Dialects spoken in different parts of China differ in tones but most parts are similar because these multiple dialects were based on the original dialect but these broken out dialects were somehow influenced by the local areas to become its own dialect.

https://www.cuhk.edu.cn/en/article/3759