The Hakka people are, genetically, the hybrid descendants of Ancient Han Chinese and local non-Han Hmong–Mien speaking ethnic groups such as the Miao people, the She people, and the Yao people. The modern Hakka language shows traits of …

Hakka people are Han Chinese people from the Central Plains, mixed with some portions of people from the south; Some of these theories are controversial today, with scholars only accepting that the modern Hakka language shows traits of proto-Hmong-Mien and Old Chinese languages, as well as the genetic makeup of Hakka people being the hybrid of non-Han Hmong …

Hakka, Chinese (Pinyin) Kejia or (Wade-Giles romanization) K’o-chia, ethnic group of China. Originally, the Hakka were North Chinese, but they migrated to South China (especially Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangxi provinces) during the fall of the Nan (Southern) Song dynasty in the 1270s. Worldwide they are thought to number about 80 million today, although …

Hakka Chinese (Chinese: 客家話; pinyin: Kèjiāhuà, Chinese: 客語; pinyin: Kèyǔ, Hak-kâ-va) is a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people throughout Southern China and Taiwan and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around the world.. Due to its primary usage in scattered isolated regions ...

The Hakka people (Mandarin: Kèjiā rén 客家人, literally “people from the guest families”) are an important minority “ethnicity” in southern China, speaking a distinctive language, and living in distinctive but discontinuous communities in Guǎngdōng 广东 Province and, to a lesser extent, Fújiàn 福建 and Táiwān 台湾 Provinces and occasionally elsewhere. (At the time this paper was …

Some claim that they were the first Chinese people to arrive in China. Others claim that the Hakka are the descendants of the Xiongnu tribe. This much is agreed upon: At various stages between the fourth and thirteenth centuries AD, large numbers of people were forced to flee their homes in the war-torn Yellow River valley to seek refuge in southern China.

A people with a long history of migration, the Hakka Chinese in the United States, come from several countries: including Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and several other countries. The Chinese characters for Hakka literally mean "guest families".