Hakka

1. not comparableOf or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家 (Kèjiā)), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese.

plural Hakkas

1. A person of Hakka descent.

1. A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia.

   The first county centre gone through, that of Tsengcheng, was full of new construction. After it, the language on the road right on into the Meihsien prefecture was Hakka.

   1977 May, Rewi Alley, “Meihsien—the Great Hakka Centre”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16

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   We passed through a large Hakka town (Hakka is a Chinese language, one of the three official languages in Taiwan; more on that in later posts) and then began to pitch and roll through a series of white-knuckling switchbacks up Hsinchu County Road 22.

   2011 April 28, John MacMillan, “A day in Cingcyuan”, in a tiny revolution (Blog), archived from the original on 07 Feb 2024

   As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.

   2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10

   Synonyms: Hakkanese, Kejia, Khek