Hakka language
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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 | ||||
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客家語/客家语/客家話/客家话 | ||||
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 | ||||
Writing system | hanzi, romanization[1] | |||
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;[2] government sponsors Hakka-language television station to preserve language | |||
Language codes | ||||
ISO 639-3 | hak | |||
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Traditional Chinese | 客家話 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 客家话 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hakka Language Media
A Hakka speaker, recorded in Taiwan.
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.
References
- ↑ Hakka was written in Chinese characters by missionaries around the turn of the 20th century.[1] Archived 2004-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E7%9C%BE%E9%81%8B%E8%BC%B8%E5%B7%A5%E5%85%B7%E6%92%AD%E9%9F%B3%E8%AA%9E%E8%A8%80%E5%B9%B3%E7%AD%89%E4%BF%9D%E9%9A%9C%E6%B3%95
Further reading
This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Hakka language edition. |
- The Hakka Dialect. A Linguistic Study of its Phonology, Syntax and Lexicon, by Mantaro J. Hashimoto. (Cambridge University Press, 1973).