Hakka is a Sinitic language spoken by an estimated 40 million people worldwide. Its speakers, the Hakka people, are spread across southern China, Taiwan and long-established diaspora communities in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and beyond, the result of successive migrations over the past thousand years. In Taiwan, Hakka holds the status of a national language and is taught in schools and broadcast on a dedicated television channel. Like other Chinese varieties it is tonal and written with Chinese characters, yet it is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin or Cantonese; the Meixian dialect of Guangdong province is usually taken as the reference variety. Hakka preserves some older pronunciations that other Chinese varieties have lost, which makes it of particular interest to historians of the language family.
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