Taiwanese Hakka

{{Short description|Chinese topolect spoken in Taiwan}}

{{Expand Chinese|臺灣客家語|date=February 2016}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Taiwanese Hakka

| nativename = toiˇ vanˇ hagˋ gaˊ ngiˊ / toiˇ vanˇ hagˋ fa
Thòi-vàn Hak-kâ-ngî / Thòi-vàn Hak-fa

| pronunciation = {{nowrap|{{IPA|hak|tʰoi˩ van˩ hak̚˨ fa˥|label=Sixian:}}}}
{{nowrap|{{IPA|hak|tʰoi˥ van˥ hak̚˨ fa˩|label=Hailu:}}}}
{{nowrap|{{IPA|hak|tʰoi˧ van˩˩˧ kʰak̚˨˩ fa˥˧|label=Dapu:}}}}
{{nowrap|{{IPA|hak|tʰoi˧ van˥ kʰak̚˥ fa˨˦|label=Raoping:}}}}
{{nowrap|{{IPA|hak|tʰai˧ ban˥˧ kʰa˥ su˥|label=Zhao'an:}}}}

| states = Taiwan

| ethnicity = Hakka Taiwanese

| region = Taoyuan, Miaoli, Hsinchu, Pingtung, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Nantou, Changhua, Yunlin, Yilan, Hualien and Taitung

| speakers = 2,580,000

| date = 2015

| ref = {{cite book|editor1-last=Eberhard|editor1-first=David M.|editor2-last=Simons|editor2-first=Gary F.|editor3-last=Fennig|editor3-first=Charles D.|title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World|date=2019|publisher=SIL International|location=Dallas, Texas|edition=22nd|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hak|access-date=14 August 2019|chapter=Chinese, Hakka}}

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Sinitic

| fam3 = Chinese

| fam4 = Hakka–Gan?

| fam5 = Hakka–She?

| fam6 = Hakka

| fam7 = Yue-Tai & Hailu

| script = Latin (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ)

| nation = Taiwan{{efn|National language in Taiwan;{{Cite news |date=25 December 2018 |title=Draft National Language Development Act Clears Legislative Floor |language=en |work=Focus Taiwan (CNA English News) |agency=Central News Agency |url=http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aedu/201812250018.aspx}} also statutory status in Taiwan as one of the languages for public transport announcements{{Cite web |title=Dàzhòng yùnshū gōngjù bòyīn yǔyán píngděng bǎozhàng fǎ |script-title=zh:大眾運輸工具播音語言平等保障法 |trans-title=Act on Broadcasting Language Equality Protection in Public Transport |url=https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E7%9C%BE%E9%81%8B%E8%BC%B8%E5%B7%A5%E5%85%B7%E6%92%AD%E9%9F%B3%E8%AA%9E%E8%A8%80%E5%B9%B3%E7%AD%89%E4%BF%9D%E9%9A%9C%E6%B3%95 |language=zh |via=Wikisource}} and for the naturalisation test.[https://web.archive.org/web/20170725175658/http://www.ris.gov.tw/zh_TW/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=2a89733e-e3e3-4f28-8f7b-84dff55777d5&groupId=10157 "Standards for Identification of Basic Language Abilities and General Knowledge of the Rights and Duties of Naturalized Citizens"] (PDF). Republic of China (Taiwan): Ministry of the Interior. Amended 9 April 2016. Article 6. Archived from the [http://www.ris.gov.tw/zh_TW/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=2a89733e-e3e3-4f28-8f7b-84dff55777d5&groupId=1015 original] on 25 July 2017. Accessed 20 July 2020.}}

| isoexception = dialect

| iso6 = htia

| agency = Hakka Affairs Council

| glotto = none

| glottorefname =

| lingua = 79-AAA-gap

| map = Taiwanese Hakka usage map in 2010.svg

| mapcaption = Proportion of residents aged 6 or older using Hakka at home in Taiwan, in 2010

| dia1 = Sixian

| dia2 = Hailu

| dia3 = Raoping

}}

Taiwanese Hakka is a language group consisting of Hakka dialects spoken in Taiwan, and mainly used by people of Hakka ancestry. Taiwanese Hakka is divided into five main dialects: Sixian, Hailu, Dabu, Raoping, and Zhao'an.{{Cite web |date=16 July 2018 |title=Distribution and Resurgence of the Hakka Language |url=https://english.hakka.gov.tw/Content/Content?NodeID=676&PageID=40022&LanguageType=ENG |access-date=14 August 2019 |website=Hakka Affairs Council |language=en}} The most widely spoken of the five Hakka dialects in Taiwan are Sixian and Hailu.{{Cite book |title=The Republic of China Yearbook |publisher=Government Information Office |year=2010 |isbn=9789860252781 |location=Republic of China (Taiwan) |page=42 |language=en |chapter=Chapter 2: People and Language |chapter-url=http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/yearbook/02People&Language.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805173731/http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/yearbook/02People%26Language.pdf |archive-date=5 August 2011 |url-status=dead}} The former, possessing 6 tones, originates from Meizhou, Guangdong, and is mainly spoken in Miaoli, Pingtung and Kaohsiung, while the latter, possessing 7 tones, originates from Haifeng and Lufeng, Guangdong, and is concentrated around Hsinchu. Taiwanese Hakka is also officially listed as one of the national languages of Taiwan. In addition to the five main dialects, there are the northern Xihai dialect and the patchily-distributed Yongding, Fengshun, Wuping, Wuhua, and Jiexi dialects.