The Wuhua dialect (simplified Chinese: 五华话; traditional Chinese: 五華話; pinyin: Wǔhuáhuà, Hakka: ŋ̍˧˩ fa˧˥ fa˥˩, Kak-ka-fa (-va), Kak-fa (-va) is a major dialect of Hakka Chinese spoken in Wuhua County, Jiexi County, Shenzhen, eastern Dongguan, Northern Guangdong around Shaoguan, Sichuan Province, and Tonggu County in Jiangxi Province.
In Wuhua-concentrated areas of Northern Bao'an and Eastern Dongguan, the same Meixian dialect tone level of the yang-ping is found.
Retroflexed initials in 知 (Zhi series) “Knowledge”, 曉/晓 (Xiao group) “Dawn”, and part of 溪 (Xi) “Brook”, and poor usage of medials in Grade III and closed finals.
In the Wuhua Hakka dialect group, Qusheng consists of only QingQu syllables, Shangsheng is a combination of Qingshang and Zhuoqu Characters.
Due to the resulting language contact, Wuhua is affected by the dialectal assimilation of the surrounding areas.
Minority languages tend to assimilate with their superiors as observed in the Wuhua dialect of Taiwan.
[1] The Wuhua dialect spoken in Wuhua County is traditionally categorized into three subgroups:[2] In more detailed analysis: Meizhou: Fengshun, Qingyuan: Yingde, Qingxing, Qingcheng, Lianzhou, Lianshan and Liannan, Guangzhou: Conghua, and other places on the Pearl River Delta, Guangxi: Hezhou (贺州), in Liantang (莲塘), Shatian (沙田), Gonghui (公会), Guiling (桂岭), Huangtian (黄田) Most finals are the same with Meixian / Moiyen dialect, except for: In Wuhua, Shaoguan (and most dialects around it), and Sichuan, the Yangping is usually 35 instead of 11.