Taiwanese Hakka

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Taiwanese Hakka
toiˇ vanˇ hagˋ gaˊ ngiˊ / toiˇ vanˇ hagˋ fa Thòi-vàn Hak-kâ-ngî / Thòi-vàn Hak-fa
Pronunciation	Sixian: [tʰoi˩ van˩ hak̚˨ fa˥] Hailu: [tʰoi˥ van˥ hak̚˨ fa˩] Dapu: [tʰoi˧ van˩˩˧ kʰak̚˨˩ fa˥˧] Raoping: [tʰoi˧ van˥ kʰak̚˥ fa˨˦] Zhao'an: [tʰai˧ ban˥˧ kʰa˥ su˥]
Native to	Taiwan
Region	Taoyuan, Miaoli, Hsinchu, Pingtung, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Nantou, Changhua, Yunlin, Yilan, Hualien and Taitung
Native speakers	2,580,000 (2015)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Hakka & Hailu Taiwanese Hakka
Writing system	Latin (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ)
Official status
Official language in	Taiwan[a]
Regulated by	Hakka Affairs Council
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
ISO 639-6	htia
Glottolog	None
Linguasphere	79-AAA-gap
Proportion of residents aged 6 or older using Hakka at home in Taiwan, in 2010

Taiwanese Hakka is a language group consisting of Hakka dialects spoken in Taiwan, and mainly used by people of Hakka ancestry. Taiwanese Hakka is divided into five main dialects: Sixian, Hailu, , Raoping, and .^[5] The most widely spoken of the five Hakka dialects in Taiwan are Sixian and Hailu.^[6] The former, possessing six tones, originates from Meizhou, Guangdong, and is mainly spoken in Miaoli, Pingtung and Kaohsiung, while the latter, possessing seven tones, originates from Haifeng and Lufeng, Guangdong, and is concentrated around Hsinchu.^[5][6] Taiwanese Hakka is also officially listed as one of the national languages of Taiwan. In addition to the five main dialects, there are the northern Xihai dialect and the patchily-distributed Yongding, Fengshun, Wuping, Wuhua, and Jiexi dialects.

See also[]

• Taiwanese Hakka Romanization System
• Languages of Taiwan

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External links[]

• 臺灣客家語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Hakka] (in Traditional Chinese). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2016.