Hakka language

Hakka
Hakka
客家語/客家语/客家話/客家话
	Hak-kâ-fa/Hak-kâ-va (Hakka/Kejia) written in Chinese characters
Native to	China, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan (due to presence of Taiwanese community in Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area), Singapore, Indonesia, Mauritius, Suriname, South Africa, India, Vietnam and other countries where Hakka Chinese-speaking migrants have settled.
Region	in China: Eastern Guangdong province; adjoining regions of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces
Ethnicity	Hakka people (Han Chinese)
Native speakers	30 million (2007)ne2007
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	one of the statutory languages for public transport announcements in the ROC; government sponsors Hakka-language television station to preserve language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hak
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Hakka is a dialect of the Chinese language spoken mainly in southern China by the Hakka people and their descendants now living in East and Southeast Asia and countries around the world.

Hakka Language Media

A Hakka speaker, recorded in Taiwan.
𠊎講客。客語友善環境。 (Ngài gong Hak。Hak-ngî yû-san fàn-kín) (I speak Hakka. Hakka-language-friendly environment.)
艾族的漢字文學作品
Tsai Ing-wen, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and of Taiwanese Hakka descent, appears on "Lecturer Hakka Language Radio Broadcasting" to give a speech.