From the book "The Stubborn Hakka People"

[CHUNG Yoon-Ngan <chungyn@mozart.joinet.net.au>]

Recently, I revisited my Hakka hometown and bought a few books, all in
Chinese, about the Hakka People. I hope some day someone will 
translate these books into English for the English educated Hakkas
to read. One of them is called "The Stubborn Hakka People  硬頸客家人" 
which is written by a Japanese! whose name, in Pinyin, is Gao Mu Gui Zang-
高木桂藏  I don't know his English name. 

According to him the Hakka and Japanese pronounciations of the figures 
of 1 2 3 4 are similar. Hope our Hakka friends who know Japanese will
agree with him as I don't know Japanese.  

According to him there are estimated forty five million Hakka People 
in the world, more than all the Koreans in the globe. The author also
gives a brief biography of the most 14 famous Hakka.
He also quotes many Hakka proverbs.
I quote five of them as the examples.

(1)   Lang Duo Chi Ren            狼多吃人
        Ren Duo Chi Lang            人多吃狼

(2)   Shan Zhong Wu Fu            山中無虎
        Quan Cheng Da Wang      犬稱大王

(3)    Guan Da Mian Duo            官大面多 
         Shu Da Feng Qiang           樹大風強

(4)    Ren Qiong Zhi Duan          人窮志短
         Ma Shou Mao Chang         馬瘦毛多

(5)    Ren Huo Yi Shi                   人活一世
        Cao Huo Yi Qiu                   草活一秋

It is a very interesting Hakka book

CHUNG Yoon-Ngan.