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Hakka

DEFINITIONS OF: Hakka

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n a member of a people of southeastern China (especially Hong Kong, Canton, and Taiwan) who migrated from the north in the 12th century

Type of:
Chinese
a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

n a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka

Synonyms:
Hakka dialect
Type of:
Chinese
any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
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