客家话(Hakka Chinese)是汉语的一个重要分支,主要分布在中国南方。由于客家人相互之间长期处于封闭状态,因此客家话发展出众多的变体和方言。尽管如此,客家话仍然被视为客家人的身份象征。随着社会的发展,客家人与其他族群交流越来越密切,客家话的传承出现了危机,因此现在越来越多的人加入到了保护客家话的行列。
Hakka Chinese, one of the major Chinese language varieties, is mainly spoken in Southern China. Despite the numerous variants and dialects it has developed due to the long isolation among the Hakka people, the Hakka language is still considered as a symbol of identification among them. With the development of society, however, Hakka Chinese is facing inheritance crisis because of the increasingly close communication between the Hakka people and people from other ethnic groups, and thus more and more people are dedicated to the preservation of Hakka Chinese.