Longchuan Hakka

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Longchuan Hakka is a regional variety of the Hakka Chinese language spoken primarily in Longchuan County in Guangdong, China.

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Label Occurrences
Longchuan Hakka canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese topolect
Hakka Chinese variety
Sinitic language variety
belongsTo Chinese language continuum
closelyRelatedTo other northeastern Guangdong Hakka dialects
country China
ethnicGroup Hakka language
surface form: Hakka
geographicDistribution northeastern Guangdong
hasAlternativeName Yuebei Hakka
surface form: Longchuan Hakka dialect

Longchuan variety of Hakka Chinese
hasFeature lexical tones
little inflectional morphology
syllable-timed rhythm
tone language
hasLexicon Hakka core vocabulary
regional lexical items specific to Longchuan
hasPhonology Hakka-type consonant inventory
Hakka-type vowel system
tone categories typical of Hakka
hasSociolinguisticSituation coexists with Mandarin in education and media
used mainly in informal domains
ISO639Status covered by Hakka Chinese macrolanguage (hak)
languageBranch Chinese language
surface form: Sinitic languages
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
languageGroup Hakka language
surface form: Hakka
languageStatus regional spoken variety
linguisticLineage descends from historical Hakka migrations into Guangdong
morphologyType isolating
mutualIntelligibility not fully intelligible with Mandarin
partially intelligible with other Hakka varieties
primaryRegion Longchuan County
province Guangdong Province
surface form: Guangdong
regionOfVariation Yuebei Hakka
surface form: Guangdong Hakka
sharesFeatureWith Mandarin Chinese
Yue Chinese
other Hakka varieties
spokenBy Hakka people in Longchuan County
spokenIn rural areas of Longchuan County
towns of Longchuan County
subgroupOf Hakka language
surface form: Hakka Chinese
typology analytic language
usedFor daily communication
local culture
oral traditions
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Chinese characters

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Hakka hasDialect Longchuan Hakka