1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Genus: Chinese

Hakka

WALS coordinates: 25° N, 116° E

spoken in China

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Kejia
Routledge:
  • Kejia (Hakka)
Other:
  • Chinese,
  • Hakka, Moi-yan dialect
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
Uvular Consonants None
Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels None
Syllable Structure Moderately complex
Tone Complex tone system
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb XVO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and RelN