Every language has a source, and this source is the original language of this language. For example, Indo-European languages (including English, French, Italian, Iranian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Northeast, etc. ) There is a "primitive Indo-European language" with the same meaning. At present, linguists have completely constructed the original Indo-European language. This primitive Indo-European language no longer exists, but about 8000 years ago, these Indo-European people did speak the same "primitive Indo-European language".
Generally speaking, according to the classification of linguistics, a language has a family, and a family contains several or even dozens of similar languages. These languages of the same language family are derived from the same original language. In other words, the same language is a language thousands of years ago. With the dispersion and migration of population, the same language scattered around has gradually become the same language but different languages. Some of these languages can communicate with each other, and some don't understand at all.
There are many dialects in Chinese. In China, people who speak Chinese all over the country are divided into various "dialects", and some scholars abroad call different dialects "languages", such as Mandarin, Jin dialect, Wu dialect, Hunan dialect, Gan dialect, Minnan dialect, Cantonese dialect and Hakka dialect. But Chinese is a special language. No matter what dialect or language you call, you use the same Chinese character, so it belongs to one language in essence.
None of these dialects in China can be called "primitive Chinese", which is far from primitive Chinese. These dialects are only related to the phonology of ancient Chinese in different times. For example, Wu dialect retains more pronunciations of Chinese in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Jin dialect retains more Tang sounds. The pronunciation of Cantonese is a combination of China quaint and Lingnan ancient Vietnamese, which has basically taken shape in the Tang Dynasty.
About 5000 years ago, that is, around 3000 BC, Han and Tibet were separated. However, both Chinese and Tibetan languages have experienced a long and complicated history, and their languages have also undergone great changes, which are far from the original "original Chinese and Tibetan languages".
So the original China people are completely gone in real life? Primitive Indo-European can also find clues from ancient Sanskrit, so there are no realistic traces in Chinese? Where can I find traces of primitive Chinese? There is really a language close to the original Chinese! This is "Jia Rong language"! Jia Rong language can be said to be a "living fossil" of Chinese!