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| Name | Hakka |
| Imagecaption | Hak-kâ-fa/Hak-kâ-va (Hakka/Kejia) written in Chinese characters |
| Imagesize | 150px |
| Nativename | 客家話 / 客家话 |
| Familycolor | Sino-Tibetan |
| States | Mainland China, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan (due to presence of Taiwanese community in Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area), Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Mauritius, Suriname, South Africa, India and other countries where Hakka Chinese migrants have settled. |
| Region | in China: Eastern Guangdong province; adjoining regions of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces |
| Speakers | 34 million |
| Fam2 | Sinitic |
| Fam3 | Chinese |
| Fam4 | Gan � Hakka |
| Nation | none (legislative bills have been proposed for it to be one of the 'national languages' in the Republic of China); one of the statutory languages for public transport announcements in the ROC ; ROC government sponsors Hakka language television station to preserve language |
| Script | hanzi, romanization |
| Agency | The Guangdong Provincial Education Department created an official romanisation of Meixian Hakka dialect in 1960, one of four languages receiving this status in Guangdong. It is called Kejiahua Pinyin Fang'an. |
| Iso3 | hak |
| Notice | IPA |
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Hakka or Kejia is one of the main subdivisions of the Chinese language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka people and descendants in diaspora throughout East and Southeast Asia and around the world.
Due to its usage in scattered isolated regions where communication is limited to the local area, the Hakka language has developed numerous variants or dialects, spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces, including Hainan island, Singapore and Taiwan. Hakka is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, Wu, Minnan, or other branches of Chinese. It is most closely related to Gan, and is sometimes classified as a variety of Gan.
There is a pronunciation difference between the Taiwanese Hakka dialect and the Guangdong Hakka dialect. Among the dialects of Hakka, the Moi-yen/Moi-yan (梅縣, Pinyin: Méixiàn) dialect of northeast Guangdong has been typically viewed as a prime example of the Hakka language, forming a sort of standard dialect.
The Guangdong Provincial Education Department created an official romanization of Moiyen in 1960, one of four languages receiving this status in Guangdong.
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