Hakka language
| 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)[1] |
| hanzi, romanization[2] | |
| 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;[3] government sponsors Hakka-language television station to preserve language |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hak |
| Glottolog | hakk1236 |
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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.
See also
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin
- ↑ Hakka was written in Chinese characters by missionaries around the turn of the 20th century. Archived 2004-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "大眾運輸工具播音語言平等保障法 - 维基文库，自由的图书馆".
Further reading
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Hakka Chinese edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Hakka Dialect. A Linguistic Study of its Phonology, Syntax and Lexicon, by Mantaro J. Hashimoto. (Cambridge University Press, 1973).
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