Obrigado por ter interessado na lingua(dialecto) Hakka.Sou de terceira geracao nascido em TL,o meu avo paterno veio de Canton(Moi Jian) e continuamos a falar Hakka diariamente, bem como milhares de timorenses chineses que vivem na Australia ou em Portugal.O HAkka de Timor tem sido influciando por Tetum e Portugues pelo que muitas palavras nao e intendido por outros fora de TL.Se pudesse fazer um estudo or investigar na origem do primeiro chines que chegou a TL,onde ,quando e como, etc,Obrigado.
The language is a part of the identity of the people, his identification as part of a group of individuals that share the same culture , which are separate from other persons, and it is the case of the Sephardic Jews of Turkey and Israel, who preserve the Castilian ancient language as part of his culture, or as the people of Malaca (Malaysia), who have preserved a Portuguese Creole.
Are the Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Wu languages mutually intelligible to each other? If not, why do the native speakers of these language consider themselves ethnic Hans, like the native speakers of the Mandarin language?
My great grandfather was Hakka Chinese and I've always wanted to learn the language/know more about it. Thanks for this video! I'm also partially Portuguese, haha.
I can understand 100% what they speak. They must have decended from MeiXian Hakka. Excellent, they can preserve the language. Ngi Ho Moh? are you well? Ngai Ho? I am fine Ngai Em Ho. I am not fine Ngai Phiang. I am sick Ngi Miang Make? What is your name? Ngai Miang Anuza. My name is Anuza Ngi Kito Seh? How old are you? Ngi Hoi Naeh? Where are you? etc.
i can understand everything you said. im speak hakka chinese and my parents said i speak malaysian chinese and my family is from india but they are chinese.
Hi -- I am trying to find more info about the Ngai dialect (Hakka). Its the one that sounds like Cantonese. I cannot find any info online about the culture language or people.
My mother speaks this language but I do not know anything about it. If anyone can link or suggest someting it would be great.
Interesting video. I'm hakka but I would not know what they were saying if I heard it without actually knowing they're Hakka. If I listen closely I can understand some of it. The accent sounds funny, almost like a Cantonese trying to speak Hakka. Because of the migrations by the Hakka it is a given the Hakka dialect will shift from its original form especially those that relocate to locations where the common language is not a Han chinese dialect
i think there is two types of hakka laugs. A hakka that is simular to cantoninese(sorry about the spelling) and a hakka the people in east timor use (in this vid).
People of any minority, would prefer to speak English or French. And any Hakka people would quickly pick up another language and subsitute words that are new, hence, the language becomes very diluted. Like people in Singapore speak Hakka with Malay, Portuguese, Mandarin, English influence. Hakka people in Thailand, speak bits of Thai in between. Its the same for Hokkien people who speak Baba Peranakan Language = mix of Malay, portuguese, dutch, hokkien vocabulary and grammar.
You're wrong. Ask the Catalans if they would prefer to speak English or French, or even Spanish. Ask the Norwegians if they would prefer to speak Danish, or English, or French, instead of Norwegian.
Even Mandarin is not so widely spoken as people say sometimes. A lot of the Chinese with other mother tongues in Portugal and other countries are starting to loose Mandarin (Pǔtōnghuà), because they speak Cantonese, or Shanghainese, or Hakka, at home with their family, and their children go to local schools where they are educated in the local languages, so the kids do not learn to speak Mandarin and don't know how to write Chinese.
Gloria e felicidade para esse casal, se os avós quisserem escolher ou saber que bonitos serão os netos, e só questão de dar uma voltinha no Sydney. Anh yêu Viêt-Nam.
This is my view for East Timor hakka only since this is only the Chinese language that I speak. It might be different in other hakka dialects as East Timor hakka had many influences from Tetum and Portuguese languages.
Im glad that you decided to honor our language hakka by putting some of the useful expressions here although Ive found a few mistakes which might not seem to be for few of you.
In my opinion when asking your name it should be said: Ngi ye mian make or Ngi ye sian make(sorry if my spelling is wrong). This is more formal when getting to know a person for the first time. And there is also a specific word in hakka for Portuguse language which is "Puvun". Good job anyway
hello ultrableu good comment,keep it up.I think lyy or Limpantat or jackiecheung 80 has changed named again you just wait and see.I think you are right this lousy person is a female.Dony use nice words use the worst language you can find.bye!
Even angmo speaks hakka ( see video on the right!)Limyangyang is a psychotic,completely out of touch with this real world.He is trying to incite hatred between Hakka and Cantonese.His has to much shit in his brain!He is trying to talk like Hitler telling the Germans to kill all jews!I hope he has his cyanide pill ready ready for suicide! I issued him a challenge to tell me what type of cantonese he is but he turn his tail down! I want to report him to the appropriate Cantonese association !
Hakka aint extinct... I'm hurr... go to facebook and type Hakka u'll find alot of groups and so on .... Na GE HAKKA FAA SUT FOON HAO.. Im the ultimate king of hakka language
This limyangyang, he used to compare Latin language to hakka - considered as dead language. D western world may consider Ancient Greek & Latin as dead languages bcos Latin races are today French, Spanish, Portuguese & Italians who hv their own countries & languages now. Hakka is Chinese & D writing characters is Chinese - D same wordings as Mandarin - the official language of China. To me, as far as there is Chinese, there is hakka. Correct me if I am wrong.
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If hakka think of themselve as "Hakka Supremist" they r stupid. Hakka language had no economic, commerce, science & IT value at all. It is language for old farmers. Majority of Educated & Wealthy Hakka do noty wish to speak Hakka anymore. Anyone ever heard Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Teng-hui, Deang Xiao-peng speak Hakka? NO. They dun even know Hakka anymore. To be successful, better learn prestige Cantonese, English & Mandarin; Hakka is just a waste of time to learn. It is peasant dialect.
that sonuvabitch limyangyang isn't even Cantonese, for chrissake...he's an ethnic Hokkien living in Malaysia (or so i've heard) A disgrace to all good Hokkiens everywhere...
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Hakka is not suitable for city dwellers, too low class. The language r spoken with lots of vulgarities n profanities. Too ugly to be used for official purpose. All Hakka should assimilate into Cantonese. Dun forget, 65%opf Hakka population live in Cantonese land. SO Hakka MUST assimilate and speak Cantonese only. Cantonese is a modern, prestige language. It is high class, chic, classy n modern living language on 21st Century. Hakka is barbaric language of bandits & nomads.
well, if we truly are barbarians & nomads, then we are a people who have seen all the expanses of China, from the north to the south. you my friend are a despicable disgrace to everyone who would be proud to call themselves Chinese. People now do not speak of their ethnic group but are proud of it. (cont'd)
(cont'd) You on the other hand are what is best described as a living relic, still holding on to the old ethnic rivalries. If you say we refuse to change it is because we are proud of our ethnic identites. As should everyone across the world, Chinese or not. Therefore it is with a sense of satisfaction that i declare you an outdated relic.
Mandarin is not important. Its best to speak Hakka if one has hakka blood and just learn how to write the characters. And if you have been to Timor-Leste. I rather say you learn the ethnic languages before you want to learn Mandarin. Limyangyang are you crazy there are so many hakkas married to cantonese in Singapore, Malaysia and USA.
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Hakka is the farmer language of Taiwan. Hakka is peasant language in China. It is the grandpa and grandma dialect. Only old generation speaks Hakka. Younger Hakka will NOT speak that low-class dialect. Lee Kuan Yew & Lee Hsien Loong rather speak Malay & English than Hakka. Everyday, thousands of Hakka speakers r going to graveyard but replacement speakers in less than 30%. Hakka dialect is dying. in 1998 = 66m speakers. In 2008 = 34m left. in 2020 mayb 17 m left worldwide.
Cantonese won't narrow-minded or wayward as some childish thought.Cantonese is consists of Hakka,so-called Cantonese,Chaoshan etc.Clashes,skirmishes almost happened every moment n everywhere,not only historical clashes that not experienced n knew by us now
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history is history. Hakka is war mongerers hated by most Cantonese till this day. Even till today, according to my relatives that many Cantonese still abhor marraiage between Cantonese gals to Hakka. They hated Hakka to the bone.
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4GET HAKKA, SPEAK MANDARIN OR CANTONESE
I m advising u, forget Hakka, d sun-set & language spoken among d old & peasant hill-tribes only. Join d Mainstream Society where Mandarin, Cantonese & Taiwanese(Minnan) rules d society n business/entertainment circles.
Hakka? That is d most uncultured & low class language, few Hakkas still speaks Hakka anyway!!!
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SPEAK MANDARIN/CANTONESE. Hakka always claims Hakka ppls is so great BUT face d fact. Deng Xiao Ping, Lee Teng-hui, Chen Shui-bian, Li Peng, Dr Sun Yat-sun, Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Hsien-loong; do they speak Hakka or their children speaks Hakka? NO....they assimilate to mainstrean societies of Taiwanese (Hokkien), Mandarin & Cantonese. WHy...Hakka is low class & useless language, waiting 4 extinction. They dun even teach their childen Hakka cos it had no economic value anymore.
you don't need to learn solely for the economic value. just the cultural aspect is reason enough to learn and speak. many places still have a majority who speak hakka. in fact travelling around you'll be surprised at how many people around the world speak hakka. i once met an indonesian in singapore and we hit it off just solely on the fact that we spoke hakka. c'mon. no one's asking you to go pick up hakka, they're just asking you to stop flaming.
People like you who have no culture, We have nothing to do with Deng Xiao Ping or any leader of the Chinese people. I'm Timorese Hakka and proud to be Timorese who speak Tetum and Hakka, my grand parents and parents were born there, my parents even speak another Timorese dialect due to where they grew up have does not speak Tetum. So of all the unculture people you are the one. Chinese Mandarin or Cantonese may extinct Hakka in China or Hong Kong, but it will never from East Timor.
layjared - U idiot. I know many younger Hakka r learning Mandarin in Timor Timor and listening to Mandarin & Cantonese songs. Only stubborn Hakka fanatics speaks in Hakka. U should only Speak Mandarin or Cantonese cos yr descendends come from Meixian in Guangdong. There is no Hakka province or Country speaking in outdated archiac dialects that gonna extinct.
you are seriouly misinformed about hakkas in East Timor. In the old days when East Timor was a Portuguese colony there was one Chinese high school and many Chinese primary schools, all of them teaching Mandarin (gúoyǔ 国语) with books from Taiwan. After the brutal Indonesian invasion all Chinese schools were closed and the teaching of Chinese was forbidden. Today you can hardly find one East Timorese Chinese who is learning Mandarin.
Only old Hakka people in East Timor speak Mandarin. Most young Hakka can speak Hakka as mother tongue, beside Tetum, Indonesian, some Portuguese, some English, and some other local East Timorese language.
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I doubt East Timor Hakka speakers is understood by Malaysia, Taiwan or China Hakka speakers. It is already too adulterated. Mayb with vocabulary of less than 800 words each esp among the young. Look like East timor, Hakka is really a peasant or farmer language without economic value at all.
Once more you show how little you know. Even if the ethnic Chinese (Hakka) community numbers are now very reduced compared with the situation before the Indonesian invasion, it is still true that their activities in East Timor were never as peasants or farmers and they keep on being the main entrepreneurs and shop owners in the country. And their vocabulary is not limited to 800 words. They use loanwords from Portuguese and Tetum, as Hong Kong Cantonese use loanwords from English.
A village boy from Mississippi (USA) can understand a village boy from Ireland, even if they may experience some difficulty at first because of their accents. Until a recent past some East Timorese Chinese families still asked sometimes their relatives in mainland China to find a suitable girl to marry their son, and the newcomer would have no problem communicating with her new family in Hakka.
For the love of God... shut up. A little reminder: you are not our parent, so YOU cannot dictate what we can speak. I was taught Cantonese in my household, but I know some cousins, my age and younger, converse in Hakka. And another reminder, Hakka is STILL CHINESE. We are here to observe and celebrate the cultural, historical and verbal differences and similarities of a CHINESE dialect, even if some of us do not speak it ourselves.
I am Hakka from Hong Kong and converse in Hakka with my family and relatives. I have to say that their (the 2 girls') Hakka accent is very different to our's. I could not out what they were saying.
U call watever d name, it still means Guest or nomad. Mayb a language of Barbaians of China, peoples without original land but get lost in Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Szechuang as unwanted peoples there till today, after many way & clashes with the locals. No wonder Cantonese peoples dun like Hakka after the re-occuring Punti-Hakka War few hundred years ago.
eheheheh....aqui que alguem fala portugues!!!.....yu yin voi com phuvun mo........(portugues em haka e phuvun).....(timor-leste em haka e tun tivun).....ahahahhahahah......parle....haka....como deve ser......eheheheheh
Obrigado por ter interessado na lingua(dialecto) Hakka.Sou de terceira geracao nascido em TL,o meu avo paterno veio de Canton(Moi Jian) e continuamos a falar Hakka diariamente, bem como milhares de timorenses chineses que vivem na Australia ou em Portugal.O HAkka de Timor tem sido influciando por Tetum e Portugues pelo que muitas palavras nao e intendido por outros fora de TL.Se pudesse fazer um estudo or investigar na origem do primeiro chines que chegou a TL,onde ,quando e como, etc,Obrigado.
Arlindo2176 2 weeks ago
este video precisa de um audio melhor! o.o mas está muito bem elaborado!
05werewolf 3 weeks ago
The language is a part of the identity of the people, his identification as part of a group of individuals that share the same culture , which are separate from other persons, and it is the case of the Sephardic Jews of Turkey and Israel, who preserve the Castilian ancient language as part of his culture, or as the people of Malaca (Malaysia), who have preserved a Portuguese Creole.
luisdiego29 3 months ago
Are the Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Wu languages mutually intelligible to each other? If not, why do the native speakers of these language consider themselves ethnic Hans, like the native speakers of the Mandarin language?
anarmehtievful 9 months ago
I'M HAKKA ! <3 (=
ilyxb00 1 year ago
My great grandfather was Hakka Chinese and I've always wanted to learn the language/know more about it. Thanks for this video! I'm also partially Portuguese, haha.
xRedster 1 year ago
hinchung88 1 year ago
@hinchung88 yep im east timorese chinese, great great grandparents were born in meixian
ZeroHour999 1 year ago
i can understand everything you said. im speak hakka chinese and my parents said i speak malaysian chinese and my family is from india but they are chinese.
LuvliMizSunshine 1 year ago
@hinchung88 nya gei hakka ng chor!!
LeoneJalbert 1 year ago
Hi -- I am trying to find more info about the Ngai dialect (Hakka). Its the one that sounds like Cantonese. I cannot find any info online about the culture language or people.
My mother speaks this language but I do not know anything about it. If anyone can link or suggest someting it would be great.
santherpoozy 2 years ago
Interesting video. I'm hakka but I would not know what they were saying if I heard it without actually knowing they're Hakka. If I listen closely I can understand some of it. The accent sounds funny, almost like a Cantonese trying to speak Hakka. Because of the migrations by the Hakka it is a given the Hakka dialect will shift from its original form especially those that relocate to locations where the common language is not a Han chinese dialect
ballazrus 2 years ago
oh his like spanish they are speaking hakka haha.
dragonippa 2 years ago
im a hakka from melb. that dont sound like hakka sounds more like tetu or something lol
dragonippa 2 years ago
I knew you hakka from Dili between huluhum and akadiduhum.
CHINAPOWERFULL 2 years ago
I've seen your photos on Flickr. Great work. Are you researching on Hakka? I know a few East Timores Hakka in Melbourne.
puickj 3 years ago
why do i understand this?
i speak a bit of hk hakka
but i only understand the
ngai ho, nee ho, gnai mo- but its gnai maow
so this might not b hk hakka
TheMeikolee 3 years ago
Interesting, a "Guilau" introducing simple Hakka dialet(sub-dialet 'Hopoh'?) with 2 Hakkamooi to Portuguese community?
ywintube 3 years ago
...i dont think this is the hakka that i speak >_>
heykiddxpotatochipp 3 years ago
Same =|
Sy5temErR0r 3 years ago
the guy wasnt speaking hakka at 1:23 u can heard the hakka part.
Linkin1Roxas 3 years ago
i cant understand as well, not the accent i speak in chengdu
waitred 3 years ago
i think there is two types of hakka laugs. A hakka that is simular to cantoninese(sorry about the spelling) and a hakka the people in east timor use (in this vid).
Mik3Minor 2 years ago
The two girl's voice is quite soft as a result I only know some of what they said.
eddyyongreturns 3 years ago
People of any minority, would prefer to speak English or French. And any Hakka people would quickly pick up another language and subsitute words that are new, hence, the language becomes very diluted. Like people in Singapore speak Hakka with Malay, Portuguese, Mandarin, English influence. Hakka people in Thailand, speak bits of Thai in between. Its the same for Hokkien people who speak Baba Peranakan Language = mix of Malay, portuguese, dutch, hokkien vocabulary and grammar.
Nevtindome 3 years ago
You're wrong. Ask the Catalans if they would prefer to speak English or French, or even Spanish. Ask the Norwegians if they would prefer to speak Danish, or English, or French, instead of Norwegian.
jpesperancatimor 3 years ago
Even Mandarin is not so widely spoken as people say sometimes. A lot of the Chinese with other mother tongues in Portugal and other countries are starting to loose Mandarin (Pǔtōnghuà), because they speak Cantonese, or Shanghainese, or Hakka, at home with their family, and their children go to local schools where they are educated in the local languages, so the kids do not learn to speak Mandarin and don't know how to write Chinese.
jpesperancatimor 3 years ago
Gloria e felicidade para esse casal, se os avós quisserem escolher ou saber que bonitos serão os netos, e só questão de dar uma voltinha no Sydney. Anh yêu Viêt-Nam.
Fluteroo 3 years ago
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Another BOGUS ACCOUNT of insane SPAMMER & China-HATER_Hakka-HATER limyangyang aka limPANTAT / limBUTOH / KRATOYlim -- hongkongyan2 is SUSPENDED!
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twHITLER 4 years ago
This is my view for East Timor hakka only since this is only the Chinese language that I speak. It might be different in other hakka dialects as East Timor hakka had many influences from Tetum and Portuguese languages.
fashmia 4 years ago
Im glad that you decided to honor our language hakka by putting some of the useful expressions here although Ive found a few mistakes which might not seem to be for few of you.
In my opinion when asking your name it should be said: Ngi ye mian make or Ngi ye sian make(sorry if my spelling is wrong). This is more formal when getting to know a person for the first time. And there is also a specific word in hakka for Portuguse language which is "Puvun". Good job anyway
xx
fashmia 4 years ago
EVERYBODY NOTICES:
hongkongyan2 is limyangyang aka limPANTAT
jackiecheung80: "The account is suspended"
888DeepBlue 4 years ago
hello ultrableu good comment,keep it up.I think lyy or Limpantat or jackiecheung 80 has changed named again you just wait and see.I think you are right this lousy person is a female.Dony use nice words use the worst language you can find.bye!
hakkalow 4 years ago
Even angmo speaks hakka ( see video on the right!)Limyangyang is a psychotic,completely out of touch with this real world.He is trying to incite hatred between Hakka and Cantonese.His has to much shit in his brain!He is trying to talk like Hitler telling the Germans to kill all jews!I hope he has his cyanide pill ready ready for suicide! I issued him a challenge to tell me what type of cantonese he is but he turn his tail down! I want to report him to the appropriate Cantonese association !
hakkalow 4 years ago
Much better, report limyangyang to YouTube for violation of "terms of use" -- ethnic hatred, derogatory language, spams, etc."
UltraBleu 4 years ago
Hakka aint extinct... I'm hurr... go to facebook and type Hakka u'll find alot of groups and so on .... Na GE HAKKA FAA SUT FOON HAO.. Im the ultimate king of hakka language
HakkaMan 4 years ago
This limyangyang, he used to compare Latin language to hakka - considered as dead language. D western world may consider Ancient Greek & Latin as dead languages bcos Latin races are today French, Spanish, Portuguese & Italians who hv their own countries & languages now. Hakka is Chinese & D writing characters is Chinese - D same wordings as Mandarin - the official language of China. To me, as far as there is Chinese, there is hakka. Correct me if I am wrong.
JiDuanRen 4 years ago 2
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If hakka think of themselve as "Hakka Supremist" they r stupid. Hakka language had no economic, commerce, science & IT value at all. It is language for old farmers. Majority of Educated & Wealthy Hakka do noty wish to speak Hakka anymore. Anyone ever heard Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Teng-hui, Deang Xiao-peng speak Hakka? NO. They dun even know Hakka anymore. To be successful, better learn prestige Cantonese, English & Mandarin; Hakka is just a waste of time to learn. It is peasant dialect.
limyangyang 4 years ago
that sonuvabitch limyangyang isn't even Cantonese, for chrissake...he's an ethnic Hokkien living in Malaysia (or so i've heard) A disgrace to all good Hokkiens everywhere...
zydarking 4 years ago
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Hakka is not suitable for city dwellers, too low class. The language r spoken with lots of vulgarities n profanities. Too ugly to be used for official purpose. All Hakka should assimilate into Cantonese. Dun forget, 65%opf Hakka population live in Cantonese land. SO Hakka MUST assimilate and speak Cantonese only. Cantonese is a modern, prestige language. It is high class, chic, classy n modern living language on 21st Century. Hakka is barbaric language of bandits & nomads.
limyangyang 4 years ago
Barbarians & nomads you say?...
well, if we truly are barbarians & nomads, then we are a people who have seen all the expanses of China, from the north to the south. you my friend are a despicable disgrace to everyone who would be proud to call themselves Chinese. People now do not speak of their ethnic group but are proud of it. (cont'd)
zydarking 4 years ago
(cont'd) You on the other hand are what is best described as a living relic, still holding on to the old ethnic rivalries. If you say we refuse to change it is because we are proud of our ethnic identites. As should everyone across the world, Chinese or not. Therefore it is with a sense of satisfaction that i declare you an outdated relic.
zydarking 4 years ago
Mandarin is not important. Its best to speak Hakka if one has hakka blood and just learn how to write the characters. And if you have been to Timor-Leste. I rather say you learn the ethnic languages before you want to learn Mandarin. Limyangyang are you crazy there are so many hakkas married to cantonese in Singapore, Malaysia and USA.
Nevtindome 4 years ago
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Hakka is the farmer language of Taiwan. Hakka is peasant language in China. It is the grandpa and grandma dialect. Only old generation speaks Hakka. Younger Hakka will NOT speak that low-class dialect. Lee Kuan Yew & Lee Hsien Loong rather speak Malay & English than Hakka. Everyday, thousands of Hakka speakers r going to graveyard but replacement speakers in less than 30%. Hakka dialect is dying. in 1998 = 66m speakers. In 2008 = 34m left. in 2020 mayb 17 m left worldwide.
limyangyang 4 years ago
Nevtindome, this fellow maybe on drug. He got high & lost control of his mind.
JiDuanRen 4 years ago
Cantonese won't narrow-minded or wayward as some childish thought.Cantonese is consists of Hakka,so-called Cantonese,Chaoshan etc.Clashes,skirmishes almost happened every moment n everywhere,not only historical clashes that not experienced n knew by us now
killvice 4 years ago
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history is history. Hakka is war mongerers hated by most Cantonese till this day. Even till today, according to my relatives that many Cantonese still abhor marraiage between Cantonese gals to Hakka. They hated Hakka to the bone.
limyangyang 4 years ago
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4GET HAKKA, SPEAK MANDARIN OR CANTONESE
I m advising u, forget Hakka, d sun-set & language spoken among d old & peasant hill-tribes only. Join d Mainstream Society where Mandarin, Cantonese & Taiwanese(Minnan) rules d society n business/entertainment circles.
Hakka? That is d most uncultured & low class language, few Hakkas still speaks Hakka anyway!!!
limyangyang 4 years ago
hek si a!!!!!
zhonghua2006 4 years ago
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SPEAK MANDARIN/CANTONESE. Hakka always claims Hakka ppls is so great BUT face d fact. Deng Xiao Ping, Lee Teng-hui, Chen Shui-bian, Li Peng, Dr Sun Yat-sun, Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Hsien-loong; do they speak Hakka or their children speaks Hakka? NO....they assimilate to mainstrean societies of Taiwanese (Hokkien), Mandarin & Cantonese. WHy...Hakka is low class & useless language, waiting 4 extinction. They dun even teach their childen Hakka cos it had no economic value anymore.
limyangyang 4 years ago
you don't need to learn solely for the economic value. just the cultural aspect is reason enough to learn and speak. many places still have a majority who speak hakka. in fact travelling around you'll be surprised at how many people around the world speak hakka. i once met an indonesian in singapore and we hit it off just solely on the fact that we spoke hakka. c'mon. no one's asking you to go pick up hakka, they're just asking you to stop flaming.
justput 4 years ago
People like you who have no culture, We have nothing to do with Deng Xiao Ping or any leader of the Chinese people. I'm Timorese Hakka and proud to be Timorese who speak Tetum and Hakka, my grand parents and parents were born there, my parents even speak another Timorese dialect due to where they grew up have does not speak Tetum. So of all the unculture people you are the one. Chinese Mandarin or Cantonese may extinct Hakka in China or Hong Kong, but it will never from East Timor.
layjared 4 years ago
Iha Timor ema hatete dehan ema china sira nee ignorante teb-tebes..maibe hau realiza katak..ami ignorante liu chinesa sira....hau foin mak hatene katak lian chinese-timorense sira uza nee naran Hakka.
berelulul 4 years ago
barelulul
bodoh. tulis dalam bahasa English. Tulis bahasa katak hutan orang tak faham. Gila, tak ada otak punya orang Hakka hutan.
limyangyang 4 years ago
layjared - U idiot. I know many younger Hakka r learning Mandarin in Timor Timor and listening to Mandarin & Cantonese songs. Only stubborn Hakka fanatics speaks in Hakka. U should only Speak Mandarin or Cantonese cos yr descendends come from Meixian in Guangdong. There is no Hakka province or Country speaking in outdated archiac dialects that gonna extinct.
limyangyang 4 years ago
liayangyang,
you are seriouly misinformed about hakkas in East Timor. In the old days when East Timor was a Portuguese colony there was one Chinese high school and many Chinese primary schools, all of them teaching Mandarin (gúoyǔ 国语) with books from Taiwan. After the brutal Indonesian invasion all Chinese schools were closed and the teaching of Chinese was forbidden. Today you can hardly find one East Timorese Chinese who is learning Mandarin.
jpesperancatimor 4 years ago
Only old Hakka people in East Timor speak Mandarin. Most young Hakka can speak Hakka as mother tongue, beside Tetum, Indonesian, some Portuguese, some English, and some other local East Timorese language.
jpesperancatradutor 4 years ago
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I doubt East Timor Hakka speakers is understood by Malaysia, Taiwan or China Hakka speakers. It is already too adulterated. Mayb with vocabulary of less than 800 words each esp among the young. Look like East timor, Hakka is really a peasant or farmer language without economic value at all.
limyangyang 4 years ago
Once more you show how little you know. Even if the ethnic Chinese (Hakka) community numbers are now very reduced compared with the situation before the Indonesian invasion, it is still true that their activities in East Timor were never as peasants or farmers and they keep on being the main entrepreneurs and shop owners in the country. And their vocabulary is not limited to 800 words. They use loanwords from Portuguese and Tetum, as Hong Kong Cantonese use loanwords from English.
jpesperancatimor 4 years ago
A village boy from Mississippi (USA) can understand a village boy from Ireland, even if they may experience some difficulty at first because of their accents. Until a recent past some East Timorese Chinese families still asked sometimes their relatives in mainland China to find a suitable girl to marry their son, and the newcomer would have no problem communicating with her new family in Hakka.
jpesperancatimor 4 years ago
For the love of God... shut up. A little reminder: you are not our parent, so YOU cannot dictate what we can speak. I was taught Cantonese in my household, but I know some cousins, my age and younger, converse in Hakka. And another reminder, Hakka is STILL CHINESE. We are here to observe and celebrate the cultural, historical and verbal differences and similarities of a CHINESE dialect, even if some of us do not speak it ourselves.
DraconianAngel 4 years ago
is this even hakka? . coz i have no understanding .
coz i can speak hakka
BaybiiSin 4 years ago
I understood them perfectly.
Its Daibu hakka from Canton province.
Debmey 4 years ago
I am Hakka from Hong Kong and converse in Hakka with my family and relatives. I have to say that their (the 2 girls') Hakka accent is very different to our's. I could not out what they were saying.
Catnipsta 4 years ago
Well u have to understand the Hakka in East Timor has evolved..lols
berelulul 4 years ago
I am a hakkanese from Mauritius
domcheck2 4 years ago
Thanks for posting!
I'm an Indonesian who grew up in Jakarta.
Just had a Portuguese course last semester so I could understand much.
My cousin's fiancée speaks K-he' language. It sounds similar to Hakka.
Muito obrigado!
0stsee 4 years ago
Khek language is indeed Hakka language. Just different way to call it =)
sylvg 4 years ago
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U call watever d name, it still means Guest or nomad. Mayb a language of Barbaians of China, peoples without original land but get lost in Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Szechuang as unwanted peoples there till today, after many way & clashes with the locals. No wonder Cantonese peoples dun like Hakka after the re-occuring Punti-Hakka War few hundred years ago.
limyangyang 4 years ago
For Hakka studies in RPC go to Google and search for both
"Jiaying University" "Hakka heartland of Meizhou"
jpesperancatradutor 4 years ago
u've got an attitute problems
emmarhlee5 4 years ago
eheheheh....aqui que alguem fala portugues!!!.....yu yin voi com phuvun mo........(portugues em haka e phuvun).....(timor-leste em haka e tun tivun).....ahahahhahahah......parle....haka....como deve ser......eheheheheh
renumata 4 years ago
mikey & casey are reading some hakkai (kajiahua) language in east timor not master splinter & ancient ones
joeymasong 4 years ago