Siyen dialect

Hakka
客家語 / 客家语 Hak-kâ-fa
Hak-kâ-fa/Hak-kâ-va (Hakka/Kejia) written in Chinese characters
Native to	China, Taiwan, overseas communities
Region	Mainland China: northeastern Guangdong province, adjoining regions of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces; Hong Kong: New Territories (older generations since younger Hakkas mostly speak Cantonese due to language shift and social assimilation)
Ethnicity	Hakka people (Han Chinese)
Native speakers	30 million (2007)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Hakka
Writing system	hanzi, romanization
Official status
Official language in	none (legislative bills have been proposed for it to be one of the "national languages" in the Republic of China)
Recognised minority language in	Taiwan (a statutory language for public transportation; government sponsor of Hakka-language television station)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	hakk1236
Linguasphere	79-AAA-g > 79-AAA-ga (+ 79-AAA-gb transition to 79-AAA-h)
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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 different provinces, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi and Guizhou, as well as in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Hakka is not mutually intelligible with Yue, Wu, Southern Min, Mandarin 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.