hakka

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Duplicating all those characters again to cover Mandarin and Cantonese and Wu and Hakka and Hokkien?

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A person of Hakka descent.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A person of Hakka descent.

adjective

Of or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家 (Kèjiā)), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese.

noun

A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hakka.

noun

A person of Hakka descent.

adjective

Of or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家 (Kèjiā)), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese.

noun

A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia.

Example sentences

Duplicating all those characters again to cover Mandarin and Cantonese and Wu and Hakka and Hokkien?

There are still people native to Cantonese, Min Nan, or Hakka who don't speak Mandarin.

Even within the Chinese, they are separated into Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka etc, each with their own cultural character.

I'm not saying anything bad about Hakka Labs at all -- I simply don't know enough to judge either way!

And in the South (HK area), where much of the high-tech industry is, Cantonese, Hakka and some other dialects are spoken in addition to Mandarin.

I have also studied Taiwanese, Cantonese, and Hakka (listed in decreasing order of proficiency).

I just released Hakka News, a client for HN and I would never consider putting ads in an app gear towards this crowd.

I'm grateful for the exposure, but some notification or clear notice that I'm not affiliated with Hakka Labs (whatever/whoever they are) would have been nice.

Hi Andrew, I'm the founder of Hakka Labs.

Considering two illiterate Chinese people, one of whom speaks mandarin and the other hakka, is it correct to say, since they're both illiterate, that neither knows any language at all?

They learned Mandarin (Modern Standard Chinese) even though their home language was either Taiwanese (in most cases) or Hakka or some other non-Mandarin Sinitic language, or one of the non-Sinitic aboriginal languages of Taiwan.

Language: Proficient in Objc-C, familiar with C and Swift I'm an iOS developer with a BS in Chemistry, creator of Hakka News (over 1000 users and avg 4 stars review on Apple app store).

Quote examples

I'm now using Hakka News but "no orange" is very strange.

(Underneath, it's about the perception that I am somehow "contributing to" or "endorsing" Hakka Labs by posting content I created there.

Mandarin, Yue, Wu, Min, Hakka and so on are all "languages" (or "language families"), and Shanghaihua is a dialect of Wu, Beijinghua is a dialect of Mandarin, Guangdonghua is a dialect of Yue, etc.

Proper noun examples

However, if Mandarin is a language does that mean that Hokkien, Foochow, Cantonese, Hakka, etc are languages too?

> if Mandarin is a language does that mean that Hokkien, Foochow, Cantonese, Hakka, etc are languages too?

> mutually unintelligible dialects (Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Hakka, etc.) But the trick is that when written on paper these dialects are mostly mutally intelligible.