Talk:Hakka language
 | This article contains a translation of Hakka language from en.wikipedia. |
Edit 26 March 2009[change source]
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| Hakka | |
|---|---|
| 客家話 / 客家话 Hak-kâ-fa | |
| Native to | People's Republic of China, Malaysia, Taiwan (Republic of China), Japan (due to presence of Taiwanese community in Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area), Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Mauritius, Suriname, South Africa, India and other countries where Hakka Chinese migrants have settled. |
| Region | in China: Eastern Guangdong province; adjoining regions of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces |
Native speakers | 34 million |
| hanzi, romanization | |
| 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); one of the statutory languages for public transport announcements in the ROC [1]; ROC government sponsors Hakka language television station to preserve language |
| Regulated by | The Guangdong Provincial Education Department created an official romanisation of Meixian Hakka dialect in 1960, one of four languages receiving this status in Guangdong. It is called Kejiahua Pinyin Fang'an. |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | zh (Chinese) |
| ISO 639-2 | chi (B) zho (T) |
| ISO 639-3 | hak |