Editing Hakka Chinese (section)

===Early history===
It is commonly believed that [[Hakka people]] have their origins in several episodes of migration from northern [[China]] into southern [[China]] during periods of war and civil unrest<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Hakka People > Historical Background |url=http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/hakka/english/a/a.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909162739/http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/hakka/english/a/a.htm |archive-date=9 September 2019 |access-date=11 June 2010 |website=edu.ocac.gov.tw |language=en}}</ref> dating back as far as the end of [[Western Jin]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=[Insert title here] |url=http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/hakka/a/main_a11.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040830050836/http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/hakka/a/main_a11.htm |archive-date=30 August 2004 |access-date=12 October 2014 |website=edu.ocac.gov.tw |language=zh}}</ref> The forebears of the Hakka came from present-day [[Central Plains (China)|Central Plains]] provinces of [[Henan]] and [[Shaanxi]], and brought with them features of Chinese varieties spoken in those areas during that time. (Since then, the speech in those regions has evolved into dialects of modern [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]]). The presence of many archaic features occur in modern Hakka, including final consonants {{IPA|-p -t -k}}, as are found in other modern southern Chinese varieties, but which have been lost in Mandarin.

[[Laurent Sagart]] (2002){{sfnp|Sagart|2002}} considers Hakka and southern [[Gan Chinese]] to be sister dialects that descended from a single common ancestral language (Proto-Southern Gan) spoken in central Jiangxi during the [[Song Dynasty]]. In Hakka and southern Gan, Sagart (2002) identifies a non-Chinese [[Substrata (linguistics)|substratum]] that is possibly [[Hmong-Mien languages|Hmong-Mien]], an archaic layer, and a more recent Late [[Middle Chinese]] layer. Lexical connections between Hakka, Kra-Dai, and Hmong-Mien have also been suggested by Deng (1999).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Deng |first=Xiaohua 邓晓华 |date=1999 |title=Kèjiāhuà gēn Miáo-Yáo-Zhuàng-Dòngyǔ de Guānxì wèntí |script-title=zh:客家话跟苗瑶壮侗语的关系问题 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41454386.pdf |journal=Mínzú yǔwén |language=zh |volume=3 |pages=42–49 |script-journal=zh:民族语文 |access-date=3 July 2021 |archive-date=27 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327150716/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41454386.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Due to the migration of its speakers, Hakka may have been influenced by other language areas through which the Hakka-speaking forebears migrated. For instance, common vocabulary is found in Hakka, [[Min Chinese|Min]], and the [[She language|She]] (Hmong–Mien) languages.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} Today, most [[She people]] in Fujian and Zhejiang speak [[She Chinese|She]], which is closely related to Hakka.