Hakka languages are one of the seven major Chinese language groups (the others groups are Mandarin, Wu, Yue, Gan, Min, and Xiang). Although linguists class these as independent Chinese languages, traditionally they have been regarded as dialects, as...

Hakka (客家話/客家话, Hak-kâ-fa in Hakka, Kèjiāhuà in Mandarin) is a spoken variation of the Chinese language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka ethnic group and descendants in diaspora throughout East and Southeast Asia and...

This is the first English-language study focused on Hakka ethnicity, with a collection of seven essays that range widely in both time and space. Hakka means "visitors, guests, sojourners, immigrants or settlers." Now the People's Republic of China officially recognizes Hakka as a...

By Sow-Theng Leong (Edited by Tim Wright). Stanford (California): Stanford University Press. 1997. xix, 234 pp. (Maps, graphs, tables.) US$45.00, cloth. ISBN 0-8047-2857-7. The nine chapters of this posthumous book fall into three parts. Part 1 consists of a single chapter on...

Taiwan is considering abandoning its long-standing policy of recognizing Mandarin Chinese as the island's only official language, the premier said Tuesday, in a move that would likely anger rival China.Su Tseng-chang said the Cabinet is examining a draft for a "National Language Development Act" to...

Hakka and Hoklo originally were two main dialects in Taiwan. But nowadays, the Hakka dialect is shrinking and disappearing. Zhao-jin Luo, an expert in Hakka studies, once said that if Hakka people do not understand deeply about Hakka language and do not keep on speaking it, the Hakka language will die out soon.