Partial Hakka Speaking Areas

[sllee <sllee@asiawind.com>]

Approved : teoh

Moderator (SL Lee): I am trying this again to see if it works its way to
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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 97 13:10 EDT
From: ac978@freenet.toronto.on.ca (Nam c. Low)
To: hakka@mini.brooklaw.edu
Subject: Partial Hakka Speaking Areas
Cc: ac978@torfree.net
Reply-To: ac978@freenet.toronto.on.ca


To answer a question from Teoh: 

Q:Guys & gals, I passed through Fui
Chhui(Hui Zhou) and Ho Yen (He Yuan)
   but
   did not have the opportunity to stop at these place.  Now I heard one
Hakka from mainland told me that the people there spoke a
   language that are similar to Hakka buÉÑin Fui Chhiu a group 

A: These areas are partial hakka speaking areas. Nowadays, Cantonese can 
be heard
or speaking in many towns that open their businesses for people from Hong
Kong and overseas. The dialects of a number of these towns are changing; 
they are the mixture of local dialects, Cantonese from Hong Kong and
Cantonese from GuangZhou.  I did hear some pure hakka from the
family members of a restaurant in these areas. 

A note:
Nowadays, in the Pearl Delta Area, a new wave of "Hakka" is forming.
They are not the Hakkas as we define here in HGN. They are a group
of people or families from the poorer inlands. They are willing to
settle down in these areas and do not go home for New Year Celebration
every year anymore but locally. They are the New Hakkas.

Rgds,
Nam Low