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During that time, Reverend Charles Piton also made several revisions to the dictionary. [1] The first publication of Romanized Hakka in Pha̍k-fa-sṳ was done by Donald MacIver (1852-1910) in 1905 at Shantou and was titled A Chinese-English dictionary : Hakka-dialect, as spoken in Kwang-tung province. He noted that some of the content was ...
A Hakka speaker, recorded in Taiwan.. Hakka (Chinese: 客家话; pinyin: Kèjiāhuà; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Hak-kâ-va / Hak-kâ-fa, Chinese: 客家语; pinyin: Kèjiāyǔ; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Hak-kâ-ngî) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities ...
The Meixian dialect (Chinese: 梅縣話; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Mòi-yan-fa; IPA: [moi˩ jan˥ fa˥˧]), also known as Moiyan dialect, as well as Meizhou dialect (梅州話), or Jiaying dialect and Gayin dialect, Kayin dialect [1] is the prestige dialect of Hakka Chinese.
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, Dabu, Raoping, and Zhao'an. [5] The most widely spoken of the five Hakka dialects in Taiwan are Sixian and Hailu. [6]
Lai, Laiholh [a] is a Kuki-Chin language spoken in central Chin State in Myanmar, and Lawngtlai district of Mizoram, India. [1] Hakha Chin-speaking minorities are also found in the Sagaing and Magway Regions of Myanmar, [1] and in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeastern Bangladesh by the Bawm minority.
Hagfa Pinyim (lit. ' Hakka Pinyin ') is a system of romanization used to transcribe Chinese characters as used in Hakka into Latin script.Hagfa Pinyim was developed by Lau Chun-fat (Chinese: 劉鎮發) for use in his Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese: 客語拼音字彙; lit.
In Raoping County, Hakka is spoken in the north, including the towns of Shangshan, Shangrao, Raoyang, Jiucun, Jianrao, and Xinfeng, as well as some villages in Hanjiang Forest Farm. As of 2005, there are 190,000 Hakka speakers in Raoping County (19% of the county's population). [1] The distribution of Raoping Hakka in Taiwan is scattered.
Jiaoling County (yellow) in Meizhou, Guangdong Liudui in Kaohsiung and Pingtung, the area where Southern Sixian is spoken. The Sixian dialect, also known as the Sixian accent (traditional Chinese: 四縣腔; simplified Chinese: 四县腔; Sixian Hakka Romanization System: Xi ien kiongˊ / Xi ian kiongˊ; [1] Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Si-yen-khiông / Si-yan-khiông [1]), is a dialect of Hakka used by ...