Can Cantonese understand Hakka?

If two languages are 80% intelligible (or more) with each other, then they are dialects of one language rather than two separate languages. These two certainly don't meet the requirements. It seems that Hakka speakers can understand more Cantonese than vice versa.
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Are Cantonese and Hakka the same?

Hakka, like Cantonese, has six tones to distinguish meaning between words or word elements with the same series of consonants and vowels. Hakka also has many similarities with the Gan language, and, the two languages are sometimes classified as a single subgroup, Gan-Hakka languages.
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Is Hakka spoken in Hong Kong?

As a result of this immigration, which increased significantly during and after the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Cantonese gradually replaced Hakka and Punti as the primary language of Hong Kong; today there are very few speakers of these languages remaining in Hong Kong (Fat, 2005) .
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Can Cantonese speakers understand Chinese?

No, they are completely different languages. Although Cantonese and Mandarin have many similarities, they are not mutually intelligible. This means that, presuming one has no significant exposure or training, a speaker of Mandarin will understand little to nothing of Cantonese and vice-versa.
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Can Chinese understand Japanese?

Japanese and Chinese are totally and non mutually understandable languages. They have totally different phonology (sounds), lexicon (words) and grammar. But because the japanese script partially uses chinese characters (Kanji) japanese people can sometimes get a rough idea of what a chinese text means and vice-versa.
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Can Cantonese Speakers Understand Hakka with ZERO Training?



Why is Fuzhounese hard to learn?

Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Like all Chinese varieties, the Fuzhou dialect is a tonal language, and has extensive sandhi rules in the initials, rimes, and tones. These complicated rules make the Fuzhou dialect one of the most difficult Chinese varieties.
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Is Hakka a dying language?

However, Hakka dialect is the only major language in the 21st century that faces disintegration. It seems that with its tens of millions of people speaking Hakka, it is theoretically 1000 times safer than a minor language, but it has become one of the endangered languages, and the number of users is less than ever.
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Are Hakka Chinese?

Hakka, Chinese (Pinyin) Kejia or (Wade-Giles romanization) K'o-chia, ethnic group of China. Originally, the Hakka were North Chinese, but they migrated to South China (especially Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangxi provinces) during the fall of the Nan (Southern) Song dynasty in the 1270s.
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Is Hakka Chinese or Indian?

The Hakka people are a subgroup of Han Chinese with their own culture, language and distinct cuisine. Since the third century, they undertook periodic migrations, always toward southern China and eventually beyond.
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Is Taiwanese a Hakka?

Roughly 12% of the population of Taiwan speak in the Hakka dialect. This dialect, while also spoke in areas of Mainland China, is seen as one of the two primary Chinese dialects spoke in Taiwan.
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Is Hokkien same as Hakka?

They both belong to the Han people, and there are a lot of Hakka who can speak Hokkien. Therefore they are likely to be mistaken as Hokkien. However, the Hakka people have their own distinguishing culture. Generally, the Hakka diet is salty, spiced, and fat.
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Is Hakka and Cantonese mutually intelligible?

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If two languages are 80% intelligible (or more) with each other, then they are dialects of one language rather than two separate languages. These two certainly don't meet the requirements. It seems that Hakka speakers can understand more Cantonese than vice versa.
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How old is Hakka?

For nearly four centuries, stretching into the Song dynasty, the Hakka lived in relative isolation, allowing their culture to mature. During 1000-1200 AD, the designation "Hakka" became more than a label applied to them as outsiders and grew to become a term of self-identification.
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Is Mulan a Hakka?

The character of Hua Mulan was originally from the Northern Wei Dynasty (which lasted from 386 to 534 AD), whereas the earliest Hakka tulous were built in the 1200s; in a completely different country (the Southern Qi Dynasty) about 700 years later.
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What culture is Hakka?

Hakka culture (Chinese: 客家文化) refers to the culture created by Hakka people, a Han Chinese subgroup, across Asia. It encompasses the shared language, various art forms, food culture, folklore, and traditional customs.
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How many dialects are there in Hakka?

There are five main dialects of Hakka Chinese. The Sixian (Hakka: Siyen) dialect originating from Jiaying, Guangdong, has six tones and is the most widely-spoken dialect. The Hailu (Hakka: Hoiliuk) dialect, the second most prevalent dialect, originated from Haifeng and Lufeng, Guangdong, and has seven tones.
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What race is Hakka?

The Hakkas are Han Chinese originating solely from the Central Plain; The Hakkas are Han Chinese from the Central Plain, with some inflow of those already in the south; The majority of the Hakkas are natives from the south, with portions coming from those in the north.
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Where can I learn Hakka?

Hakka language resources – Language Links Database
  • Hakka.gov.tw - A radioand video series for learning Hakka. ...
  • Daylightstar.wordpress.com - Grammar, vocabulary, lessons and Hakka resources (in English)
  • Nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw - Hakka text to speech (in Chinese)
  • Guhy.csie.ntust.edu.tw - Hakka lessons (in Chinese)
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What is the hardest Chinese dialect?

1. Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world. Mandarin Chinese is challenging for a number of reasons.
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Does Fuzhou speak Mandarin?

Most Fuzhou dialect speakers in China and Taiwan are also able to speak Mandarin, so learning the language is not necessary to communicate, and foreigners living in the area usually opt to learn Mandarin instead which result in the language being in decline.
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Can Vietnamese understand Chinese?

Because of the difference between Vietnamese and Chinese languages, a Vietnamese native speaker who was born in a Vietnamese family in Vietnam cannot understand nor speak Chinese as their first language. They can speak and understand Chinese as a second language if they learn Chinese.
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Can Koreans understand Japanese?

Korean and Japanese are not mutually intelligible languages. If a Korean person would travel to Japan, they couldn't communicate with Japanese people using Korean. There aren't enough similarities to even guess the meaning from context. This means that learning Japanese and Korean at the same time is possible.
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