Hoklo, 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), which administratively includes Haifeng County (海丰 Hai Hong), and Lufeng City (陸丰 Lok Hong), which itself was a former county and now county-level city. The name 'Hailufeng' / 'Hai Lok Hong' (海陸丰) is a portmanteau of those places. It is a Southern Min (Min Nan) language with similarities to Hokkien, especially Chiangchew Hokkien, though it also has close geographical and cultural ties with neighboring Teo-Swa.^[6][7] Ethnically, the Hoklo see themselves as Hailok, separate from the Teochews.

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Hoklo
Hailufeng, Hai Lok Hong
Haklau
Region	Mainly in Shanwei, eastern Guangdong province.
Native speakers	2.65 million (2021)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Min Coastal Min Southern Min Hoklo
Early forms	Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese[lower-alpha 1] Proto-Min
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(hlh is proposed[5])
ISO 639-6	hife
Glottolog	None
Linguasphere	79-AAA-jik (Haifeng) 79-AAA-jij (Lufeng)
Hoklo Min in Shanwei

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Differences from Teochew dialect proper 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.