Loss of Hakka dialect

According to field research by teachers and students in the Communication and Management Research Department at Nanhua University, Zhenbei community in Chiayi County’s Meishan Township was an important Hakka settlement one hundred years ago. Unfortunately, the prevalent use of Mandarin Chinese has slowly depleted the native Hakka language, forcing Hakka people to rely on genealogy, religion and oral narration by Hakka seniors to retrieve their culture. In order to recapture the lost Hakka language, Professor Wang Hui-lan (王慧蘭) from Nanhua University led a group of graduate students to conduct a comprehensive field research study.

Through the process of interviewing elderly Hakka people in the community, Professor Wang and his team are attempting to establish the fabric of Hakka culture in Zhenbei community. At the same time, by means of making a video recording of the complete process, Professor Wang hopes to provide data through which the community can find its roots and recapture the lost Hakka dialect.  

Loss of Hakka dialect 

URL:https://www.peopo.org/news/265109

(以下是中文對照)

客語‧在客庄流失 影音

根據南華大學傳播管理研究所師生的田野調查發現，嘉義縣梅山鄉圳北社區，一百多年前是客家族群的聚居地，卻因為漢化嚴重，造成母語流失殆盡，族人只能倚靠族譜、宗教和耆老口述，找回些許記憶。為了尋找流失的客家語言，南華大學傳播管理研究所教授王慧蘭，帶領研究生深入社區田野調查，從耆老的訪談過程中，試圖重建圳北客家脈絡，並拍攝完整記錄，提供社區尋根參考，協助圳北找回流失的母語。