Varieties of Chinese
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There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible. Variation is particularly strong in the more m
A school in Guangdong with writing "Please speak Standard Chinese. Please write standard characters" on the wall.
Hakka Chinese
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Hakka is a language group of varieties of Chinese spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities arou
Varieties of Chinese
…mountainous southeast part of mainland China. The varieties are typically classified into ten primary groups: Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Hui, Min, Xiang, Gan, Hakka, Yue, and Pinghua though some varieties remain unclassified. These groups are neither clades nor individual languages defined by mutual intelligibility…
"I speak Hakka. Hakka-language-friendly environment." (𠊎講客。客語友善環境, Ngài kóng Hak. Hak-ngî yû-san fàn-kín)
Hakka Chinese Hanzi
Tsai Ing-wen, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and of Taiwanese Hakka descent, appears on "Lecturer Hakka Language Radio Broadcasting" to give a speech.