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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Or the other way arround. Just because Hakka is on the mainland doesn't necessarily mean the flow has to go out to the sea and the islands.
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For historical reasons I would think that Japanese language and culture did not spread much beyond Japan before they embarked on their rampage across Asia in the late 1890s. But the "Hakka" words may just have come from Cantonese or Mandarin, since most words are similar among those three, anyway. So the whole matter definitely has no scientific basis. Then again, who said we should believe everything we see on TV or read on the internet?