In Tonggu County, Jiangxi province, people call their language Huai-yuan-fa. Among themselves, Hakka people variously called their language Hak-ka-fa ( -va), Hak-fa ( -va), Tu-gong-dung-fa ( -va), literally 'Native Guangdong language', and Ngai-fa ( -va), 'My/our language'. The name of the Hakka people who are the predominant original native speakers of the variety literally means 'guest families' or 'guest people': Hak (Mandarin: kè) means 'guest', and ka (Mandarin: jiā) means 'family'.

The Guangdong Provincial Education Department created an official romanization of Moiyen in 1960, one of four languages receiving this status in Guangdong. The Meixian dialect (Moiyen) of northeast Guangdong in China has been taken as the 'standard' dialect by the People's Republic of China. Pronunciation differences exist between the Taiwanese Hakka dialects and Mainland China's Hakka dialects even in Taiwan, two major local varieties of Hakka exist.

Taiwan (where Hakka is the native language of a significant minority of the island's residents) is a center for the study and preservation of the language. There is also a possibility that the similarities are just a result of shared areal features. It is most closely related to Gan and is sometimes classified as a variety of Gan, with a few northern Hakka varieties even being partially mutually intelligible with southern Gan. Hakka is not mutually intelligible with Yue, Wu, Southern Min, Mandarin or other branches of Chinese, and itself contains a few mutually unintelligible varieties.

Hakka ( Chinese: 客家話 pinyin: Kèjiāhuà, Chinese: 客語 pinyin: Kèyǔ, Hak-kâ-va) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people throughout Southern China and Taiwan and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around the world.ĭue to its primary usage in scattered isolated regions where communication is limited to the local area, Hakka has developed numerous varieties or dialects, spoken in different provinces, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi and Guizhou, as well as in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

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