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Hakka Chinese

Phylum: Sino-Tibetan

Genus: Sinitic

Lat/lon: 24.321389, 116.119444

ISO code: hak

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-dentalalveolarpalatalvelarglottal
stoppʰ, ptʰ, tcʰ, ckʰ, k
fricativefsçh
affricatetsʰ, ts
nasalmnɲŋ
approximantʋj
lateral approximantl

Short labialised series

velar
stopkʷʰ, kʷ

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mide
midə
open-midɔ
opena

Diphthongs

/ai/, /ia/, /eu/, /ɔi/, /ui/, /au/, /iɔ/, /iu/, /ie/

Triphthongs

/iau/

Tones

55, 33, 53, 31, 11, 13

Licit finals

m, n, ŋ, p, t, k

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(G)V(C)

Source: Lee, Wai-Sum; and Eric Zee. 2009. Hakka Chinese. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 39.107–111; Hashimoto, Mantaro J. 1973. The Hakka Dialect: A Linguistic Study of Its Phonology, Syntax and Lexicon. Cambridge University Press.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)