FOUR VARIANTS OF HAKKA | LEARN HAKKA WITH ME

[@jadehalls5169]

Thank you for sharing Hakka language. Continue speaking Hakka and promoting Chinese Hakka culture. Toa Jia!!!

[@overcosy]

Ah, so I've been communicating in East Timorese Hakka. That honestly makes tons of sense considering my background... Thank you for the informative video!

[@wai-kitlo80]

Just discovered your channel... Having lived 17 years in Suriname, your Hakka brings back a lot of memories. Thank you!

[@wmc79]

I'm also Surinamese Hakka living abroad. Glad to found this channel. Keep it up!! 👊

[@wdchow5031]

WMC, vgd. Oh well, perhaps mine will surprise you ? I live in Hong Kong, speak Bao On accent. All the best in the year of Rabbit. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e17GeYGImpKqn8U

[@czxwthyouwant]

Mingzai/小明 here. My ancestors are from the donggon/dongguan area. Thanks for making a video on this :D Really appreciate you on educating us on hakka!!!! Hakka variants are quite spread-out and the language is also affected by regions over time, thus making it hard for some variants to understand each other. Looking forward to more of your Hakka vids :):)

[@inmimisbowl]

Thanks 小明! :)

[@inmimisbowl]

Hey guys, I hope you enjoyed this video!! I made a mistake at 5:31. The East Timorese Hakka sentence is missing, so here it is: Can you speak Hakka? East Timorese Hakka: gi11 voi55 gong31 hak21ga33fa55 mo11?

[@ywchin1881]

My hakka is similar to yours and the sabahan. I understand that my hakka is Fui Chiu. BTW i am from Malaysia

[@raydhanes]

Hi M, Thanks a lot for your excellent arrangement. My Grandparents came from Moiyan and I found that the East Timorese Hakka is the same as ours.

[@kelvintjendar9344]

@@raydhanes also same with ours, my parents were borned at Aceh (west part of indonesia), my akung n apo come from moiyan.. It's similiar with timorese hakka (east part of Indonesia)..

[@wittawata]

Same as my variant.

[@herbertwu1927]

Good Hakka. Good English also. Very few young people can speak so fluent English and Hakka at the same time. Well done.

[@yuanomiyuki]

I am from Peninsular Malaysia and my late father was from Sungai Lembing, Pahang here. Very interestingly the Hakka we spoke were very similar as yours in Suriname! So happened I grew up in Sabah and growing up listening and speaking their version of Hakka and I think my late father-in-law's Hakka was quite similar to the Sinkawang version so whenever I get to speak Hakka, it's a mix of everything haha! XD By the way, your channel has been really interesting. A search on Google about something Hakka that lead me to your channel. :)

[@patrickochinski6754]

This is a great comparison!!! I feel like the Hakka Chinese Jamaicans speak are the the same as Sabah Hakka

[@squashdevicer]

Almost 100% the same.

[@cdylim]

My grand uncle emigrated from Sabah to Jamaica in the 1920s and his descendants are now Afro-Euro-but Hakkas nevertheless. We originated from the Niihau/Guanlan districts of Bao’an

[@lostinresfeber3851]

There was a lot of moving around the Caribbean - i met people in Kingston who lived in Suriname back in the 70s (probably earlier)

[@mundotan3662]

Nice to see this channel. I’m from Atambua, West Timor, Indonesia. My grandparents from Atapupu region at border Indonesia and East Timor. Elders said longtime ago they came to Timor from Moiyen ( Meixian ) by Portuguese Ship. That’s why in Timor whether in West Timor and East Timor most of Hakka Nyin usually Catholic. Too bad I couldn’t speak a word Hakka. Only Mandarin because I studied on High School. I only know How to call relatives and Some Hakka Food. My favorite is Khiu Nyuk ( sweet pork belly ).Ngai Apa siang Tan ( 陳 ） Ame siang Lay （ 黎 ）。 Happy to know a little bit of my culture.

[@jokerxback2633]

Tan is Hokkien Chin is Hakka Chen is Mandarin Chan is cantonese 陈

[@jennylee7322]

Thank you for your really interesting and insightful video! My ancestors, who were Hakka people too fled war 400 years ago from Guangdong China to an island called Tung Ping Chau in Hong Kong. The island was inhabited until 1970s. And they developed a subdialect of Hakka, which really sounds similar to Surinamese Hakka. I assume because of the similarity of the tones, words and structures that the migration wave of your ancestors could be during the same time. Thank you for uploading this great video! ♥🤗🌺

[@micaelat3734]

I am also from Surinam. I was told by my father that the family originated from Guangdong. (Great) grandfather came from Guangdong via Macao in the 1800s.

[@tommyliew3294]

I am from sabah too and now I'm now liveing in Suriname. Thank you for the video

[@austinchiang903]

I listened to the different Hakka variants because it was part of an assignment for my Chinese language and culture class. I just wanted to let you know that your English is great.

[@anitacher2412]

My family's Hakka sounds like a mixture of the Sinkawang and Sabah variants and some of the Surinamese variant too. My grandfather migrated from Guangdong and went to Brunei where he lived and worked and where my parents came from. Unfortunately, I don't speak Hakka but can understand most of it.

[@edwinhew9816]

I’m Jamaican Hakka and your Surinamese Hakka is identical. The Hakka in the Caribbean and South America likely originated from the same villages or areas. those in Malaysia or other parts of SE Asia may have came from different areas. Accounting for variations between villages it’s interesting to hear the differences and similarities. Thanks for posting. Keep it up!

[@bv2011]

I suspect that our surnames (Hew yours and mine 邱 ) are the same, only written differently in the alphabet.

[@edwinhew9816]

@@bv2011 hello cousin! :)

[@bv2011]

@@edwinhew9816 Hello Edwin, yes me might be distant cousin. Ours trace back to west Borneo, but now I live in Australia. Our surname is not so common. Do you still speak Hakka language?

[@edwinhew9816]

@@bv2011 unfortunately no. but I understand some.

[@nancypeter9045]

My mother in law came from “Donggon”. When they left China almost 80 years ago, half of the family landed in Sabah (Malaysia) and the other half (family name Chin) landed in Jamaica. So May be many Hakkas in Jamaica were from Donggon.

[@Kenziatta]

I was borned in Belitung (Indonesia), I can speak Hakka and understand all pronunciation shown in video, thanks a lot this channel.

[@kodokkeseleo3789]

He e meh losuk. Belitung sih anto liulian hosit.😃

[@martindelivre3803]

Thanks for sharing this video , Really happy to know our language has spread in so many different countries, and I am from ganzhou and finding my Hakka is pretty close to Malaysia and Australia one ( 80-100% similarity), I grew up with my grandparents and they taught me Hakka, it’s been 10 years that they passed away and I had little chance to speak Hakka ( i am working in Paris ) ,this video reminds me all the happy moments with my grandparents , thank you so much , hope to see more videos !

[@33hunting]

Hey Michelle. There are the Taiwan Hakka variant and the Fujian Hakka variant too. Don't forget these ones. Can you make a video comparing the Taiwan Hakka dialect and your Hakka dialect ?

[@letsTAKObout_it]

This is super cool. Love the comparison of different Chinese languages in different countries!

[@alvaroalvarendra9048]

I am from hakka singkawang indonesia

[@misslee7331]

I can so relate to this video! My fathers is hakka chinese from Bao'on en my mother is also hakka chinese but from Malaysia. They met in Surinam, got married and moved to the Netherlands where i was born. So all in all, guess we kinda have similar roots. Every so now and then my family in Malaysia make fun of my hakka cos of pronunciation (for example I say Soe for hand but in m'sia they say Siew) I used to think I got it wrong, but now i know im just a product of mixing everything :-)

[@inmimisbowl]

Waw very interesting how your parents met! Yeah, there are so many ways to say ‘hand’ in Hakka haha and you’re definitely not saying it wrong :)

[@meomeo7758]

The San Diu language (山由) is spoken by the San Diu people in northern Vietnam. Researchers consider it to be a Cantonese accent. While it's a huge different compared to all the other accent of the Cantonese, so some people consider San Diu to be part of the Hakka language. Here's some words/phrases (the spelling is written in Vietnamese): 我(me): ngoi 你(you): nhi 我问你(I ask u): ngoi mun nhi 太多(too much): thai tô 过(through): cô 好(good): ào 我们 (we): thai ka/thai xế 阿婆(grandma): a chiá 菜(vegetable): sọi 扣肉 (braised pork belly with taro/sour cabbage): khau nhục 粽(sticky rice dumpling/zongzi): chổng 饼(pie): pẻng 蚁(ant): ngáy 食饭(eat): zếch van

[@LearnHakka]

Very interesting video, I happen to speak yet a different variant

[@tymanung6382]

Excellent !!!-----standard spelling + tones !!! Thank you. Could you, in future, have lessons on Hakka food, history (there's even History of Hakka People,, by Teacup Media, for example), music song dance (?)---- modern pop, rock, etc. ?folk, opera, etc.--- perhaps an on line poll of modern favorites ? Hakka songs + lyrics in 1 or more sub dialect variant ?

[@peckkienkhong7087]

Hi Michelle, love the comparison. I feel the Timorese hakka sounds taibu hakka of which I am. Can you share the link to the hakka group you mentioned. Thanks and keep the dialect alive!

[@sashadacruz6442]

I am a Timorese speak Hakka. This is really nice channel...

[@klausschwab-f4o]

hope you do more of these :)

[@Agenamigo]

All versions are valid and welcomed. 😀 A Language will be dead if not spoken. 😀. keep it alive. 👍. Update: My research is over. Based on what I heard in many hakka videos in KZbin, I concluded that my grandparents came from a place named Moiyan or Meixian in Southern China. I must say all variants are very close. No problem at all. I enjoy the variety. 😀

[@janetkmwong9169]

This was brilliant thanks. It seems my hakka is a mixture of them all, must have had family all over x

[@christopherqchin4319]

Love this. Ngai hey sabah hakka chai!

[@sho9214]

The standard hakka is from Meixian, Guangdong :)

[@Cys62]

My maternal grandma was borned here. Meixian... I actually could understand all of the variants, maybe its because its a simple sentence daily usage dialect...

[@marialiew8165]

Thanks for yr explanation

[@sof6527]

I've watched a couple of your videos and I can somewhat understand your version of hakka! My grandparents speak hakka, they grew up around the border of HK and Goungdong, but I'm not sure what variant of hakka that is 😆 But I would say I Surinamese Hakka seems the most familiar to me?

[@inmimisbowl]

Oh that makes sense, since my family is from Gongdong as well. I’d say you can call it Surinamese Hakka if you’re from Suriname as well. Otherwise I’d say it’s probably HK/Gongdong Hakka, which isn’t very specific because there are many variants within that region too.😅

[@sof6527]

@@inmimisbowl Hmm maybe more HK hakka then? I think they grew up in the area Sha Tau Gok if that rings any bells 🤔😆

[@wt4397]

i dont know what hakka i speak to but surinamese hakka some of it almoste same as hk and goungdong growing up in sweden but my hakka is noob i know some basic i speak hakka with my grandfather and grandmother kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHrbi41pjbGprac like them when they spek but the girl spek more eazy to hear what she say but sound good in my ear like them speak

[@opresopre]

My girlfriends family came from Kolkata India and her Hakka was the same as the East-Timor Hakka!

[@inmimisbowl]

Oooh interesting!!

[@squashdevicer]

Surinamese and Sabah are basically the same. Bao’on, Donggon, and Fuchiu are almost identical. Sabah Hakka is basically Bao’on but sometimes mixed with Malay. I am from Sabah and I find that your surinamese Hakka is no different from the way I speak it.

[@inmimisbowl]

I agree, our Hakka is pretty much identical. Maybe just some tones we say a bit differently, but that can happen within one variant as well.

[@lot10101]

I was told we are mostly Hor Poh hak in Malaysia and we have fuk Chew hak. It get diluted infinitely with every culture we adapt to. How I know this my great grandad led his village to Malaysia.

[@squashdevicer]

@@lot10101 Hor Poh Hakka mostly in Sarawak.

[@Zakaius]

@@squashdevicer & Johore, Malaysia

[@kodokkeseleo3789]

@@squashdevicer Losuk sukkung nyi sit pau mang kinha.

[@lawrencechong7590]

My Hakka is similar to Surinamese Hakka.I am from Kuala Sala a small fishing village in Kedah, Malaysia.My mother is Cantonese but she speak good Hakka.Our favourite Hakka dishes is "yong taui foo" and "kaui jok".

[@JacobYuanHang]

As someone from the US (not chinese) but spent a ton of time around chinese people and many years practicing mandarin to a high level, and living in California around a ton of cantonese speakers, (so I understand a nice chunk of cantonese) I feel like your Hakka and the Sabah hakka was kind of understandable. Sounded very similar to cantonese in many sentences. Like just based on context and word order I could understand some sentences without the prompt. But the 2nd one the Sinkawang was very unique, as well as the timorese one was also very unique, and those 2 I might have trouble understanding without any context for sure. Very interesting. All of them are very unique though and definitely have their own flavor. I think Hakka is interesting.

[@jrgaming7334]

I'm hakka from singkawang, indonesia.. ❤️❤️

[@herbertwu1927]

It is hard to have a young girl who can speak so fluent English and Hakka. Well done.

[@mahonah]

My hakka is a lot like your hakka. I'm from Jamaica and perhaps my parents came from the same region in China.

[@Jandry87]

im from singkawang west borneo, say hello to hakka peoples all around the world

[@edwinlau9257]

Thanks for this video! Finally found the name for mine! It’s a mix 😁

[@cheekheongng8274]

Ngai hair jen shang hark. 😍

[@蘋果派-k1s]

啀第一次睇到人用客家话做视频，阿妹仔你好厉害👍。

[@laurencechan470]

@@蘋果派 KZbin 有大把視頻 用客家話 教亦好 介紹 客家文化亦好 Tosen Wong 有好多視屏介紹各地客家腔調 有個仲專門介紹廣西各地客家話添 慢慢 查下啦

[@jimbochoo3316]

I speak "ngai" hakka, from the North Vietnamese region near China. It mainly sounds like common Hakka.

[@Suite_annamite]

Do you speak the same language as the "người Hẹ" from the Vũng Tàu area?

[@jimbochoo3316]

@@Suite_annamite Umm. I can't say I know what those are. I lived near Mong Cai in Vietnam and there was a lot of "ngai" hakka speaking people there that have moved to Los Angeles in the late 70s and early 80s; primarily the Lincoln Heights area near Downtown Los Angeles. I used to hear it spoken a lot there a long time ago.

[@moonsorrow77]

I’m Hakka from Australia,via East Timor..definitely can’t understand much of the other 3..only a little I catch the phrase..lol but the East Timor guy I understand it so much..

[@rothschildianum]

East TImor Hakka were mostly from Meixien. They stopped in Jakarta first before got sent to Timor. They came way too late to Indonesia.

[@yllim3073]

Well done. Keep it up.

[@yankees_2286]

I was born in Dongguan, but I am a Xinning Hakka because my dad immigrated from Xinning to Dongguan for work.

[@blobbyblobb]

i vouch for the server

[@bluestar2253]

Ngai hair Hakka ngin!

[@anntip1]

The Surinamese Hakka version sounds very much similar to mine and I’m from peninsula Malaysian.

[@user-nu9sx7zn1j]

my family origin from guangdong i think... and my parents are from Pontianak in Indonesia... it's like 3 hours away from singkawang.... i always thought it was funny because even though we use the same hakka language but i cannot really tell what are they trying to tell me because the intonation is so different.... and some words too, i think? (I'm not sure) so when my dad and his singkawang friend were talking it felt like listening to two different languages but they understand each other... (even though it is the same but just the intonation is different) and it's really funny and amazes me how hakka can be so variant even though we're from the same area, West Kalimantan. 😂

[@madelinabong]

i agree , my parents from bangka the hakka is also different in some parts too

[@madelinabong]

i understand singkawang hakka from overall version... my parents are from bangka indonesia

[@wdchow5031]

Madelina, hahhaha, good morning. Please visit mine and share it with your elders if you do not understand it ? All the best. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e17GeYGImpKqn8U

[@paullai1583]

Try look into Tosen Wong s vlog..he brings out each hakka variant very well and he speaks many languages.

[@jeremychoo934]

My maternal grandparents are Hakka but their families emigrated to Indonesia (Bangka and Belitung) shortly after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. The Hakka that they spoke seems to be the most similar to the Singkawan version. I think they were originally 河婆客.

[@paullai1583]

Just look at the ancestral tomb..it s wriien where they cam from..eg..ho po/hoi luk fung Paternal line

[@jeremychoo934]

@@paullai1583 That’s an assumption.

[@paullai1583]

@@jeremychoo934 why don t u try look at the inscribed chinese characters and tell me that I am wrong. Qingming is the time whem u can see it all too well unless your departed used indonesian or english scripts,then the place of origin will not be there. Try it.

[@jeremychoo934]

@@paullai1583 like I said, you incorrectly assume the existence of tombstones.

[@paullai1583]

@@jeremychoo934 okay,I see what u mean.

[@rogeretiennedelacruz3000]

My grandfather was from Aceh Sumatra. He identified as da bu kak. What I is hear that is very similar is the sabahan variant.

[@temponly3653]

My background also from East Timor I speak Hakka with my parents and mostly older people. I live in Australia. I can understand clearly the guy from East Timor speaking the Hakka Timorese. My surname is Jong.

[@laurencechan470]

@temp o Is Hakka the dominant dialect in East Timor. Are there other dialects?

[@AllGroundsCoffee]

i am a Teochew speaker but i love to learn different dialects like Hokkien, Cantonese and Hakka.

[@klausschwab-f4o]

at 4:08 , the eh53 by itself what does it mean ?

[@maxchung1119]

Hi...fellow hakkas around the world...hak si nyin...!😁

[@aikleonglim9646]

ngai m hei hak (scare) ngin, ngai hei kiang (scared of) ngin. nga mak hei tai pu hak.

[@maxchung1119]

@@aikleonglim9646 😂

[@andrewearlwu554]

I have been told that Indonesian (Sumatra/Java) Hakka is usually referred to as Bangka Hakka as Bangka was a Hakka "stronghold". Its quite different from the Ipoh one, very crisp pronunciation, very little slurring.

[@paullai1583]

Ipoh hakka is of moiyen variety

[@sho9214]

@@paullai1583 moiyen Hakka is considered the standard Hakka too

[@j.ridwan4059]

very good. Thank you.

[@lostinresfeber3851]

Sabah and Suriname is quite close. I could group it as Caribbean Hakka - which is probably Bao-An ?

[@TheGrmany69]

What is the insidence of surinamese hakka in Venezuela. The Chinese people I remember there sounded more hakka than Cantonese

[@MindofYǒng]

Your Hakka quite different than mine, I've learned my grandma Hakka (Belitung island, South Sumatera)

[@onisuryaman408]

Same here. I am also from Belitung. My Hakka is pretty lame, though. Barely enough for basic conversation.

[@MindofYǒng]

@@onisuryaman408 I've asked some Chinese youtuber that I found mention the same topic about Hakka and come to conclusions. Belitung Hakka is from Huizhou / Fuijiu (Guangdong) And in Mimi video you'll find that East Timor Hakka very similar to our Hakka

[@onisuryaman408]

@@MindofYǒng Yes, Timorese Hakka is very similar to our Hakka with respect to the tone and some vocabs.

[@jeremychoo934]

My maternal grandmother is also from Belitung and her family name is Bong (黄). Her family was a tin mine owner in Belitung and Bangka where my grandfather was from and his family name was Boon (温). The Hakka that they spoke seems to be the most similar to the Singkawan version but not exactly the same.

[@MindofYǒng]

@@jeremychoo934 Bangka & Belitung became a province recently. but don't get me wrong both islander speak different tone Hakka, If your grandma spoken similiar to Singkawang than she must be from Bangka and Belitung Hakka is similiar to Feijiu (惠州huizhou city)

[@lochiyu]

I am a Hakka living in Costa Rica. My parents were from Taiwan. Can I get into the Discord server? I have never spoken Hakka with someone outside my family and they say our version of Hakka is from a minority..

[@inmimisbowl]

Yes, you can definitely join the Discord server! The name is Hakka | Chinese Language. You'll have to request to join. You're very welcome :)

[@engineersze2546]

I think the variants are more related to the region/area their ancestors migrated from. eh.if from Dabu, they speak Dabu Hakka and this is carried to wherever the ancestors migrated to, say Surinam, Seremban, Singapore, Singkawang, etc. I am from Seremban and within Seremban there are variants of Hakka from different Hakka regions of Kwongtung. I made to visit to Dabu and the Hakka in that town/area are quite consistent compared to Seremban. Hence I conclude it depends on where the ancestors originated..

[@stk.plantation2912]

Sejarah yg panjang saya suka walau kurang paham ingris

[@sikezeng9064]

Sabah Hakka is actually very close to yours. Sabah Hakka is exactly like mine which is from Dongguan area.

[@inmimisbowl]

My parents are also from Dongguan area, which makes sense:)

[@paullai1583]

Same hakka !

[@DimplefaceChloe]

Wow i am shocked there many different hakka variant . My hakka sound similar to your and sabah..

[@cosakti]

singkawang person accent is actually sounds more like khuntien hakka aka pontianak hakka

[@onisuryaman408]

I am from Belitung, and our Hakka is quite different compared to other region in Indonesia, even from our neighbor Pontianak (Khun Thian) and Singkawang. I have no idea where our ancestors came from. From history I know that many Hakka people migrated to Bangka and Belitung as tin miners.

[@paullai1583]

They probably came from chaoshan area

[@sho9214]

I think they are either from Jieyang closed to Chaoshan ( Teochew) people or from Dabu (Taipu)

[@kodokkeseleo3789]

@@sho9214 Jieyang in teochew language is Khek yo.

[@sho9214]

@@kodokkeseleo3789 in Jieyang The Teochew dialect is predominantly spoken in this region. The Hakka dialect, however, has its limited presence among Hakka people in Jiexi County.

[@laurencechan470]

@@sho9214 Correct Hopoh hak. In Jieyang Prefecture there PuNing county 普寧縣and Huilai county 惠縣 which has 30% Hakka.

[@RahmanSL]

The Hakka we speak in Sabah, Malaysia is much more similar to Surinamese Hakka. The guy from Sabah seems to have a strange Cantonese accent which, as well as Mandarin, has slowly and gradually becoming the dominant Chinese dialect.

[@nezukokamado4550]

It seems I understand the Timorese Hakka more than the others, cause I have not speak Hakka for over 40years. And don’t know which Dialect my parents belong to, but the majority of them are from Vietnam mongcai and Donghing area.

[@doriswaddington2418]

I’m Kuching Sarawak Hakka now living in Cambridge England

[@liuyizhi71]

I was born in Brazil and my family root is Meizhou ... just speak hakka at home 🙂

[@rudychau9681]

👏👏👏

[@eduardodasilva907]

Are you from Suriname??

[@hakkaloginchi363]

Good

[@foodforlife8566]

im xing an hakka from malaysia... mostly speak same as sabah hakka... singkawang hakka in malaysia they called Ho poH Hakka... :) ur surinamse same as xing an hakka..

[@paullai1583]

Singkawang hakka is not hopoh,not moiyen but a potpurri of three or four varieties..you cant find such hakka in china

[@foodforlife8566]

@@paullai1583 bcoz all already mix .. hehehe..

[@dedyirawan1213]

My hakka seems to be combination of Sabah and singkawang ... 😂 But not many people talk in hakka right now... Meet one will be nostalgic...

[@dehanieventure1704]

Hakka in Sandakan Sabah speak Hakka daily😊

[@wittawata]

My hakka is same as timonese hakka. Ngai woi gong hakka itip. In Thailand, we call our varient “pun san hakka”

[@jhonlie5460]

Mimi you mention singkawang Indonesia that my place I'm Hakka from their kamchia

[@davidalfred1219]

Hello, i''m hakka singkawang..do know hakka Bangka island?

[@neofils]

Interesting ! I can clearly hear the Cantonese influence of your hakka compared to the MeiZhou variant.

[@sho9214]

Cos Bao An is nearer to hongkong compared to Meixian

[@paullai1583]

Meixian hakka pronounces many words like cantonese as in hot,small etc Huiyang hakka is closer to morthern chinese speech

[@neofils]

@@paullai1583 Are you sure? Huiyang is much closer to the Cantonese speaking region than Meizhou !

[@laurencechan470]

@@paullai1583 Cantonese: hot- yit, small sai. Meixian: hot nyet , small-seh.Same or not. Meixian is a pure Hakka country, 0 Cantonese villages. Huiyang dialect is a mix dialect of Cantonese and Hakka- Dongkongwa. 東江話. Huiyang district's villages have Cantonese and Hakka ones mix together.

[@jonathanwong1499]

Urs is similar to mine, im from Sabah of mix ancestry origin. I want to visit Suriname someday!

[@inmimisbowl]

cool, and Suriname welcomes you! I also hope to visit Sabah soon :)

[@keechongli]

My Hakka variant in Mauritius comes from Meixien n is more like that of East Tomor though not very different from the others

[@rothschildianum]

Hakka in Timor is mostly from Meixien. They arrived in the beginning of 20th centuries, because there was no more work in Jakarta so they went further to Timor.

[@paullai1583]

Right,you got it!

[@rothschildianum]

@@paullai1583 My grandmother side has that last name, Lai. From your name, I can tell whether you are related or not? Your great grand father may have name Lai Soen xxxxx, your grand father generation may have name Lai Ie XXXX, your father may have name Lai xxxx Kauw, then I do not know the next generation. My grandmother who told me about Lai family in Timor. Let me know.

[@paullai1583]

@@rothschildianum we did not come from meixien but Huilai,chaoshan area,but basically ppl bearing the same surname might give clues thru generational name,eg,mine us muk ,my father s chao.. Women do not need to carry the generational name If u can get hold of ur ancestral genealogy(zu pu)or book of generations you will know the origins of your ppl. Interesting? U may write to my email [e-mail]

[@rothschildianum]

@@paullai1583 I saw the Lay family generational book, but I am not Lay family.

[@normanhew-shue2273]

The Hakka language, the variant I speak anyway [Guangdong/Jamaicain/Caribbean migration] is unique in not having the "R" sound, and easily distinguished from Mandarin with a predominance of "Shurrr" type sounds. My theory is that the language was shaped by hilly 'left-over' land that we peasant guest-people could settle, but made arable by dint of hard work. Imagine shouting to a neighbour across a valley that you wanted 2 pigs using nasal Mandarin, which like the name suggest is a dialect more suited for the court with numbering like Ye, Er, San, See, Woh ...as opposed to Hakka's more guttural and voice carrying- Yit, Ngee, Sam, See, Nguu, Look, Chit, Bat Giu, Sipp Long range Courtship between couples was also done using Sang Goh [Mountain Songs].

[@jean-pierrelanhingkwong7852]

Hi ! Yes, u did have a very good fine deduction from what u read. But the word cannot apply to our Hakka dialect, especially the Moiyan-hakka. It is more related to Cantonese-way of speaking. If u could have some HD Audio of our San-Ko i.e our traditional mountain- songs, u would be thrilled by the very sweet clear melodious voices of our Hakka-singers. Greetings.

[@daniyati1570]

I am a hakka from a same province in Indonesia as Harry (Singkawang), though, my family speak the same hakka as the East Timor guy. :)

[@aguslienardy1492]

wtf, how

[@jamestse492]

There are the Hakka I understand but there are some I don't understand as My parents are from Meixian

[@pia_mater]

Do you speak Sranantongo too? Or just Hakka?

[@SubradipChakraborty555]

Are you from India ?

[@virtuallyly9045]

I've found my people!

[@inmimisbowl]

isn't that a great feeling!

[@davieman3443]

Snap. My family are from the New Territories in Hong Kong and our dialect of Hakka is the same as yours. However it's not difficult to understand all dialects. I am born in the UK and all Hakka people here speak the same dialect however many choose to speak Cantonese instead ☹️

[@yaosing4124]

😂😂 now i understand why my friend said that singkawang hakka language sounds rude.. he always think that i mad at him.. 😂😂

[@inmimisbowl]

hahaha it happens to the best of us

[@paullai1583]

It doesn't t fall into any hakka category hence it s difficult to grasp

[@JamesJiansen]

I feel like it'd be a better comparison if you have all the speakers reading the same Chinese characters (if applicable). Because it sounds like all those Hakka variants could be even more similar if the English-Hakke translation weren't so speaker determined.

[@yuongpaulwong523]

Your Hakka language is very good, just like the Hakka in Hong Kong and Shenzhen

[@andresingfat3977]

what Hakka does the guy from East Timor speak? is it Meixian Hakka? Because his sounds a lot like the Hakka my parents used t speak to me. Thank you.

[@inmimisbowl]

yes, he speaks Meixian hakka.

[@LimYulu]

Halo helo to all hakka family all over the world 😀❤️ suriname,jamaica😲surprise me a lot,,yess suriname version just like cantonese

[@bleuneptune]

I am a Taiwanese "hailu" accent Hakka and they sound so different than mine!

[@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263]

That is just called dialect, accent is totally different meaning lol