Hakka speaking Hong Kong Actors

Hakka (traditional Chinese: 客家話; simplified Chinese: 客家话; pinyin: Kèjiāhuà; Hakka: Hak-kâ-fa) is one of the main subdivisions of the Chinese language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka ethnic group and descendants in diaspora throughout East and Southeast Asia and around the world.

Due to its usage in scattered isolated regions where communication is limited to the local area, the Hakka language has developed numerous variants or dialects, spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Guizhou provinces, including Hainan island and Taiwan. Hakka is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, Cantonese, Minnan and most of the significant spoken variants of the Chinese language.

There is a pronunciation difference between Taiwanese Hakka dialect and Guangdong Hakka dialect. Amongst the dialects of Hakka, the Moi-yen/Moi-yan (梅縣, Pinyin: Méixiàn) dialect of northeast Guangdong has typically been viewed as a prime example of the Hakka language, forming a sort of standard dialect.
The Guangdong Provincial Education Department created an official romanisation of Meixian Hakka dialect in 1960, one of four languages receiving this status in Guangdong.The name of the Hakka people who are the predominant original native speakers of the language literally means "guest families" or "guest people": Hak 客 (Mandarin: kè) means "guest", and ka 家 (Mandarin: jīa) means "family". Amongst themselves, Hakka people variously called their language Hak-ka-fa (-va) 客家話, Hak-fa (-va), 客話, Tu-gong-dung-fa (-va) 土廣東話, literally, "Native Guangdong language," and Ngai-fa (-va) 𠊎話, "My/our language".
The Hakka people have their origins in several episodes of migration from northern China into southern China during periods of war and civil unrest. The forebears of the Hakka came from present-day Henan and Shaanxi provinces, and brought with them features of Chinese languages spoken in those areas during that time. (Since then the speech in those regions has evolved into dialects of modern Mandarin.) Hakka is quite conservative, and is generally closer to Middle Chinese than other modern Chinese languages.
Spoken in: 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
Total speakers: 34 million
Ranking: 32
Language family: Sino-Tibetan,Sinitic Chinese Gan Hakka

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[samquan123]

Chau Nhuan Phat..

[HeyyHoodie]

lol this sounds HELLA village

[lauralam95]

Hakka & canto ftw !

[anythingnew]

@autobotftwww That's a great way of looking at it. You just killed me....

[autobotftwww]

@anythingnew How does being closer to some old dead people make a language superior?

[anythingnew]

@frankzy89 Sounds like Cantonese.... You know what that means? That means Cantonese and Hakka are the closest to the ancient Han Emperors, therefore, they are superior to Mandarin.

[toarakroad]

hakka tiew



[LengJEvo]

may i ask what film is this from?



[olivia59934]

@AwfulUser well,i am hakka and they are fluent just like me,chow yun fat only speak one sentence hakka in the end.

[AwfulUser]

Chow Yun-fat is of Hakka origin and he is the only one not speaking Hakka here, he is speaking Cantonese, shame on him!