*** Welcome to piglix ***

Taiwanese Hakka

Taiwanese Hakka
臺灣客家語
Toiˇ Vanˇ Hagˋ Gaˊ Ngiˊ
Thòi-vân Hak-kâ-ngî
Native to Taiwan
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ISO 639-6 htia
Glottolog None
Linguasphere 79-AAA-gap
Taiwanese Hakka usage map in 2010.svg
Proportion of residents aged 6 or older using Hakka at home in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen & Matsu in 2010

Taiwanese Hakka is a group of Hakka dialects spoken in Taiwan, and mainly used by people of Hakka ancestry. Taiwanese Hakka is dvided into 5 primary dialects: Sixian, Hailu, Dabu, Raoping, and Zhaoan. The most widely spoken of the five Hakka dialects on Taiwan are Sixian and Hailu. The former, Sixian, possesses 6 tones and originates from Meizhou, Guangdong, while the latter, Hailu, possesses 7 tones, and originates from Haifeng and Lufeng, Guangdong.


...
Wikipedia

...