| Proto-Hakka | |
|---|---|
| Common Neo-Hakka | |
| Reconstruction of | Hakka Chinese |
| Region | Southern Chinese highlands[1] |
| Era | c. 1280-1530[2] |
Reconstructed ancestors | |
Proto-Hakka (also called Common Neo-Hakka) is the reconstructed proto-language from which all Hakka varieties descend. Like all branches of the Sinitic language family, proto-Hakka is difficult to reconstruct through the comparative method due to its multistratal lexicon.
- ^ Coblin 2019, p. 393.
- ^ Coblin 2019, p. 394,444.
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