Hakka dictionary

[Armie]

I am not Hakka but I'm willing to learn. I have tried to find a Hakka-English dictionary but the only one that seems to have been printed was by D.McIver and I can't buy it anywhere. Could someone help me?

[Thomas Chin]

You can buy Hakka-related books and learning materials via http://www.smcbook.com.tw/ . Look in the Hakka section. They also sell reprints of D.McIver's dict.
You can order via e-mail and pay via credit card. Ships internationally.

Regards,

Thomas Chin

[Dylan Sung]

About the dictionary, the items are listed by pronunciation. That is, the pronunciation of leading characters in a word, phrase or sentence.

There is no English-Chinese lookup, so you can only use it for Hakka Chinese > English meaning.

The dictionary listing is alphabetical according to the sounds of Hakka. So, the sounds "a" begins the the book and sounds beginning in "y" ends the book. Alphabetical according to the romanisation used. Note the initials are (off the top of my head)

a, ch,chh, e,f,h,i,k,kh,l,m,n, ng, ny, o, p, ph, s, sh, t, th, v, y

where initial consonant b being listed as p, p as ph, d as t, t as th, g as k and k as kh etc... It needs getting used to. (I might have missed some above...)

The Hakka contained is very comprehensive, with old stuff from the classics every now and again. Because of the date it was compiled, it contains modern phrases up to the 1920's and 30's only, and modern Hakka vocabulary post-MacIver is influenced by borrowings from Cantonese and Mandarin via the media, where new items borrowed are pronounced in Hakka of course.

The dictionary keeps apart sounds which may have merged in other dialects, so you may need to search in a couple of places. For instance chh and tsh are confused in my dialect.

Cheers,

Dyl.

[mavericker]

You can buy Hakka-related books and learning materials via http://www.smcbook.com.tw/ . Look in the Hakka section. They also sell reprints of D.McIver's dict.
You can order via e-mail and pay via credit card. Ships internationally.

Regards,

Thomas Chin

Thank you for that link-I'm interested in buying some Hakka books also but I don't know how to navigate that site because it's in Chinese-is there an English language version available?

[mavericker]

Does anyone know of any English to Hakka language dictionaries I should buy?

[mavericker]

You can buy Hakka-related books and learning materials via http://www.smcbook.com.tw/ . Look in the Hakka section. They also sell reprints of D.McIver's dict.
You can order via e-mail and pay via credit card. Ships internationally.

Regards,

Thomas Chin

Hi-where is the Hakka section of that site? I want to learn Hakka also but I can't find it.

Is there an English-language version of that site available?

[mavericker]

I am not Hakka but I'm willing to learn. I have tried to find a Hakka-English dictionary but the only one that seems to have been printed was by D.McIver and I can't buy it anywhere. Could someone help me?

Hi-I am interested in buying some English to Hakka dictionaries also.

I think it be easier to buy the dictionary here:

http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/ ... 9576380778

Someone just told me about it.

[mavericker]

There's a Hakka dictionary here:

http://www.worldlanguage.com/Indonesian ... 101378.htm

[pothio]

it contains modern phrases up to the 1920's and 30's only, and modern Hakka vocabulary post-MacIver is influenced by borrowings from Cantonese and Mandarin via the media, where new items borrowed are pronounced in Hakka of course.
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