ABSTRACT
It seems simple to say that the Hakka dialect is the dialect spoken by the Hakka people, identified to have come to Southern China through five waves of migration over the last 1,500 years (Luo 1933). Since then Hakka has been recognized as a Modern Chinese dialect group (Yuan et al. 1989; LAC 1989), although there is still ongoing scholarly debate about whether it should be grouped together with the Gan dialects (Wang 1998).
