| Also Known As: Xinminhua,Kek,Hakka,Ke,Hokka,Tu Guangdonghua,Kehia,Kechia,Majiahua,Khek,Kejia,Chinese, Hakka
Description:
Hakka (traditional Chinese: 客家話; simplified Chinese: 客家话; pinyin: Kèjiāhuà; Hakka: Hak-kâ-fa) is one of the main subdivisions of the Chinese language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka people and descendants in diaspora throughout East and Southeast Asia and around the world.
Due to its usage in scattered isolated regions where communication is limited to the local area, the Hakka language has developed numerous variants or dialects, spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces, including Hainan island and Taiwan. Hakka is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, Wu, Minnan, and most of the significant spoken variants of the Chinese language.
There is a pronunciation difference between the Taiwanese Hakka dialect and the Guangdong Hakka dialect. Among the dialects of Hakka, the Moi-yen/Moi-yan (梅縣, Pinyin: Méixiàn) dialect of northeast Guangdong has been typically viewed as a prime example of the Hakka language, forming a sort of standard dialect.
The Guangdong Provincial Education Department created an official romanization of the Meixian Hakka dialect in 1960, one of four languages receiving this status in Guangdong.
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