Why Hakka is recognized as a language by the United Nations

Hakka is indeed a language recognized by the United Nations, an international language**: ISO 639-3 Hak.

The reason why it has so much influence is that the state is for:

1. Long history: Hakka language was initially finalized in the Southern Song Dynasty. On the basis of inheriting ancient Chinese, its pronunciation has undergone regular transliteration.

Hakka was once one of the main languages in circulation in the Republic of Lanfang; It was once the "Chinese language" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and was widely used in its official documents. Because it was closed for a long time, the inheritance of the Hakka language once relied on a closed society that was not disturbed by the outside world and strict ancestral teachings passed down by word of mouth. With the development of society, the traditional closed society has been rapidly urbanized, and the traditional laws of inheriting Hakka have been gradually abandoned in the information age, making Hakka one of the fastest declining languages in the world.

In 1988, there was a movement to return my mother tongue in Taiwan, and then gradually developed the modern Hakka language, so that the Hakka language can continue to be inherited in modern society. The birth and development of Hakka popularity, the emergence of language services in the field of public life (such as radio and television, transportation services), etc., have gradually made Hakka gradually get out of the closed, move towards modernization, and integrate into the trend of the times.

2. Extensive circulation: Hakka is the mother tongue of the Hakka people of the Han nationality (including the Hakka people in eastern Guangdong, the Dongjiang water source people, the Nanya people in western Guangdong, and the Cantonese people in Sichuan), and the distribution area is very extensive, covering the southeast, south, west and other provinces of China, Hong Kong, the northern New Territories, Taiwan, and overseas Hakka immigration areas (such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Europe and the United States, etc.).

3. Cultural recognition: The most unique point of the Hakka language is that it connects the Hakka people in mainland provinces and even Chinese regions around the world. Whether the Hakka people are in Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, Malaysia, or Indonesia on the mainland, as long as they can speak Hakka and adhere to the Hakka people's characteristic of "not forgetting the words of their ancestors", they will regard each other as "fellow countrymen" and "their own family".

People who do not speak Hakka and do not have Hakka identity, even if they have Hakka ancestry, are generally regarded as Hakka descendants, not Hakka. This characteristic of the Hakka language leads to the fact that in areas where the Hakka people are the majority, other ethnic groups often learn the Hakka language in order to win the identity of the Hakka people. In Taiwan and Malaysia, it is increasingly common for politicians to learn Hakka in order to gain support from the Hakka people, especially during election campaigns.

It has a large influence and a wide range of use, and Hakka is spoken in six states in the world. Some countries also use Hakka as the official language.

1. There is a country in the world called Suriname, the smallest country in South America; Not many people have heard of it, but many Chinese living there call it "the paradise of Chinese people in Suriname".

2. Suriname is the smallest country in South America in terms of area and population, and the only one in the Western Hemisphere that is not part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as an official language. In addition, the Hakka language in Chinese is also one of the official languages of the Su Shen Bench in the South Republic of China.

Hakka is the official language of Suriname.

Suriname is located in the northern part of South America, the language use of the category is more complex, most of the Chinese living in Suriname are from the Hakka area of Guangdong, represented by the old Huizhou Mansion, there are also many Hakka people in Guangzhou, the Hakka people in Guangzhou Prefecture can be traced back, but also from Jiaying (Meizhou) area, Suriname regards Huiyang dialect (Hakka) as the official language, and is one of the few countries in the world that regards Hakka as an official language.

However, the official language of Suriname is Dutch, which is widely spoken, but English, Hindi, and Javanese are also spoken.