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Taiwanese Hakka

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Native to
  
Taiwan

Glottolog
  
None

ISO 639-6
  
htia

Linguasphere
  
79-AAA-gap

Taiwanese Hakka

Language family
  
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Gan–Hakka Hakka Yue-Tai & Hailu Taiwanese Hakka

Taiwanese Hakka is a group of Hakka dialects spoken in Taiwan, and mainly used by people of Hakka ancestry. Taiwanese Hakka is dvided into 5 primary dialects: Sixian, Hailu, Dabu, Raoping, and Zhaoan. The most widely spoken of the five Hakka dialects on Taiwan are Sixian and Hailu. The former, Sixian, possesses 6 tones and originates from Meizhou, Guangdong, while the latter, Hailu, possesses 7 tones, and originates from Haifeng and Lufeng, Guangdong.

References

Taiwanese Hakka Wikipedia