Hakka language
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| Hakka | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
| 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 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.
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).