Glottolog None | ISO 639-6 htia Linguasphere 79-AAA-gap | |
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Language family Sino-TibetanChineseGan–HakkaHakkaYue-Tai & HailuTaiwanese 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.
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Taiwanese Hakka Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA