School of Tourism and Geography Science, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China.
School of Foreign Languages, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May 3;19(9):5538. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095538.
Previous studies have demonstrated that countries, biodiversity hotspots, wildness areas, and islands with high biodiversity also have high linguistic diversity, while the regional correlation between phonetic, lexical, and grammatical diversity within a particular kind of language and biodiversity has not been verified. Based on the methods of GIS visualization and Spearman correlation coefficient, the regional differences and correlations between linguistic diversity and biodiversity in China are investigated in this paper using the numbers of plant species, animal species, Chinese dialects, and the data of phonetic, lexical, and grammatical diversity of Chinese dialects. The results reveal the positive regional correlations between the diversity of Chinese dialects, as well as the phonetic, lexical, and grammatical diversity of Chinese dialects and biodiversity. In addition, the regional correlation between linguistic diversity and plant diversity is stronger than that between linguistic diversity and animal diversity. The diversity of Chinese dialects is being weakened by the industrialization and urbanization. Furthermore, some countermeasures to protect linguistic diversity are proposed, such as protecting biodiversity and small communities, as well as promoting national language resource protection projects.
先前的研究表明，生物多样性热点地区、野生地区和岛屿通常具有较高的生物多样性，同时也具有较高的语言多样性，而在特定语言内部，语音、词汇和语法多样性之间的区域相关性尚未得到验证。本文基于 GIS 可视化和 Spearman 相关系数的方法，利用中国的植物物种、动物物种、汉语方言数量，以及汉语方言的语音、词汇和语法多样性数据，研究了中国语言多样性与生物多样性之间的区域差异和相关性。结果表明，汉语方言多样性以及汉语方言的语音、词汇和语法多样性与生物多样性之间存在正相关关系。此外，语言多样性与植物多样性之间的区域相关性强于语言多样性与动物多样性之间的区域相关性。工业化和城市化正在削弱汉语方言的多样性。最后，本文提出了一些保护语言多样性的对策，如保护生物多样性和小社区，以及推广国家语言资源保护项目。
