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Proto-Hakka (also called Common Neo-Hakka, CNH) is the reconstructed proto-language from which all Hakka varieties descend. Like all branches of the Sinitic...

(2002) considers Hakka and southern Gan Chinese to be sister dialects that descended from a single common ancestral language (Proto-Southern Gan) spoken...

passports honor the choices of Taiwanese citizens, who can choose Wade–Giles, Hakka, Hoklo, Tongyong, aboriginal, or pinyin. Official use of pinyin is controversial...

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...

Chinese Eastern Han Middle Chinese Old Mandarin Middle Mandarin Proto-Min Proto-Hakka Ba–Shu Gan Phonology Historical Old Old National Cantonese Hokkien...

part of the Proto-Min period may have overlapped with Early Middle Chinese. Pointing to features of Min varieties that are also found in Hakka and Yue varieties...

[8] [9] Proto-Polynesian [10] Proto-Kra–Dai Proto-Kra [11] Proto-Kam–Sui [12] Proto-Hlai [13] Proto-Tai [14] Proto-Austroasiatic [15][16] Proto-Palaungic...

intelligible. The Language Atlas of China identifies ten groups: Mandarin Jin Yue Hakka Min Wu Hui Gan Xiang Pinghua and Tuhua with Jin, Hui, Pinghua, and Tuhua...

Mandarin, Jin with Central Plains Mandarin and certain divergent dialects of Hakka with Gan. All varieties of Chinese are tonal at least to some degree, and...

Raoping Hakka (traditional Chinese: 饒平客家話; simplified Chinese: 饶平客家话; Taiwanese Hakka Romanization System: ngiau pin kagˋ gaˇ faˋ), also known as Shangrao...

introduced two laws explicitly recognizing the indigenous Formosan languages and Hakka as "Languages of the nation" (國家語言) alongside Standard Chinese. Since then...

Mandarin, the other six are Wu, Gan, and Xiang in central China and Min, Hakka, and Yue on the southeast coast. The Language Atlas of China (1987) distinguishes...

also compiles dictionaries of characters used in Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka. Singapore's Ministry of Education promulgated three successive rounds of...

compared with Mon coiŋ, proto-Tai *jaŋC and Burmese chaŋ. *ke (雞 jī) 'chicken' versus proto-Tai *kəiB, proto-Hmong–Mien *kai and proto-Viet–Muong *r-ka. In...

is today, and its southern limits may have reached as far as Fujian, as Proto-Min may have been a daughter language to Ancient Wu, though this is not...

Chinese Eastern Han Middle Chinese Old Mandarin Middle Mandarin Proto-Min Proto-Hakka Ba–Shu Gan Phonology Historical Old Old National Cantonese Hokkien...

Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology — the Classification of Miin and Hakka. Trends in Linguistics series, no. 123. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-015831-0...

the Bei Jiang into eastern Guangdong. Yue-speakers were later joined by Hakka speakers following the North River route, and Min speakers arriving by sea...

some scholars to conclude that the direct ancestor of clerical script was proto-clerical script, which in turn evolved out of the lesser-known vulgar or...

Fuzhou language (Eastern Min), Pu-Xian Min, Northern Min, Gan Chinese or Hakka. The term Hokkien was first used by Walter Henry Medhurst in his 1832 Dictionary...