Hailufeng ( ''Hai Lok Hong''), or in the language itself ''Haklau'', is a
variety of Chinese mostly spoken in the
Hailufeng region of
Guangdong. The region includes
Shanwei (Swabue),
Haifeng County (Hai Hong), and
Lufeng (Lok Hong) and the name 'Hailufeng' is a portmanteau of those places. It is a
Southern Min
Southern Min (), Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation: ) or Banlam (), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwan ( ...
(Min Nan) language, though it has close geographical and cultural ties with
Teochew dialect and similarities to
Hokkien. Ethnically, the ''Haklau'' see themselves as
Hokkiens and separate from the
Teochews.
Differences from Teochew include the preservation of the final codas -t and -n, which are completely lost in Teochew, as well as the absence of the -oi finals.
References
{{Guangdong topics
Hokkien-language dialects
Shanwei
Southern Min