Hakka Chinese
| Hakka | |
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| 客家語 / 客家语 Hak-kâ-fa |
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Hak-kâ-fa/Hak-kâ-va (Hakka/Kejia) written in Chinese characters
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| Native to | China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, overseas communities |
| Region | China: eastern Guangdong province, adjoining regions of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces; Hong Kong: New Territories |
| Ethnicity | Hakka people (Han Chinese) |
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Native speakers
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30 million (2007) |
| hanzi, romanization | |
| Official status | |
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Official language in
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none (legislative bills have been proposed for it to be one of the "national languages" in the Republic of China) |
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Recognised minority
language in |
Taiwan (a statutory language for public transportation; government sponsor of Hakka-language television station)
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | hakk1236 |
| Linguasphere |
(+ 79-AAA-gb transition to 79-AAA-h)
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| Hakka | Hak-kâ-fa or Hak-kâ-va |
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Kèjiāhuà |
| Wu | |
| Romanization | Kah-ka-ho |
| Gan | |
| Romanization | Khak-ka-ua |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | Hak-kâ-fa or Hak-kâ-va |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | haak gā wá |
| Jyutping | haak3 gaa1 waa2 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Kheh-oē (客話) |
79-AAA-g > 79-AAA-ga
Hakka /ˈhækə/, also rendered Kejia, is one of the major groups of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people throughout in southern China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and in overseas Chinese around the world.
Due to its primary usage in scattered isolated regions where communication is limited to the local area, Hakka has developed numerous varieties or dialects, spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces, including Hainan island, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Hakka is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, Wu, Southern Min, or other branches of Chinese, and itself contains a few mutually unintellegible varieties. It is most closely related to Gan and is sometimes classified as a variety of Gan, with a few northern Hakka varieties even being partially mutually intellegible with southern Gan. There is also a possibility that the similarities are just a result of shared areal features.
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