Hailufeng (海陸丰 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 (Min Nan) language, though it has close geographical and cultural ties with Teochew dialect[3][4] and similarities to Hokkien. Ethnically, the Haklau see themselves as Hokkiens and separate from the Teochews.

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Hailufeng
Hai Lok Hong
Haklau
Region	Mainly in Shanwei, eastern Guangdong province.
Native speakers	2.65 million (2021)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Min Southern Min Hailufeng
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(hlh is proposed[2])
ISO 639-6	hife
Glottolog	None
Linguasphere	79-AAA-jik (Haifeng) 79-AAA-jij (Lufeng)
Haifeng dialect (inside Teochew)

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.

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