Re: Enjoyed your homepage...

[sllee <sllee@asiawind.com>]

Gian Carlo,

Thanks for your compliment. I am forwarding your msg to our Hakka Global
Network and the Hakka Forum. You are welcome to join us for the discussion 
by writing to both. 

I think there is a reference on Hakka dictionary in the resource link. 

Hakfa is a short form for Hakka fa
HakNgin is a short form for Hakka Ngin.
I don't see either one is wrong or exclusive of the other.

SL Lee

On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Gian Carlo Torrano wrote:

> Hi Mr. Lee,
> 	I enjoyed your page on Hakka language and culture very much.  I 
> study Chinese in my free time and majored in Chinese language as an 
> undergraduate student.  I have been interested in learning some Hakka 
> for a long time but I cannot find any dictionaries.  I wonder if you are 
> familiar with any good Hakka dictionaries on the market. If you do, 
> could you please let me know?  This would be very useful for me.
> 	By the way, I thought this might be interesting to you: I was 
> born and grew up in Panama (Central America) where there is a large 
> overseas Chinese community.  I don't have any statistics, but a large 
> proportion of Panamanian Chinese are Hakka and still speak the Hakka 
> language.  A few of the wealthiest Panamanian Chinese are also Hakka.  
> One person I met in Panama, however, told me that Hakka people don't 
> call themselves Hakkangian, but rather Hakngian - and their language is 
> properly called Hakfa, not Hakkafa.  Is this true?
> 	Well, hope to hear from you.
> 				Cheers,
> 				Gian Carlo Torrano
>