ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION

Global Hakka Research is an association under Austrian law for the promotion of Hakka studies. It has been founded in 2021 by Ralf Vollmann & Soon Tek Wooi in order to support various research projects.

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Ralf Vollmann is a university professor at the University of Graz. He studied linguistics, tibetology & buddhism, anthropology mainly in Vienna, Austria. MA in sociophonology, Ph.D. on first language development, habilitation about the Tibetan ergative. Experience in acoustic phonetics, multimedia database design, language development in children on the autism spectrum. Now working on Hakka sociolinguistics and grammar.

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Ralf Vollmann 是奥地利格拉茨大学的大学教授。 早年在维也纳学习语言学、藏学、人类学， 考取社会语言学硕士；儿童语言发展博士，藏语格标志－德语国家教授资格考试。 研究兴趣：社会语音变异、格标志+语法、多语制、标准语与非标准语、客家语言文化。

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Soon Tek Wooi, born in Malaysia, studied in Taipei and now works on the Hakka language in its global context. Proficient in Hakka, Cantonese, Chinese, English, Malaysian, German.

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Soon Tek Wooi 是客家语言和文化的独立研究员； 出生于马来西亚，曾在台北学习，现居奥地利。 研究兴趣：语言融合与语言变迁、多语制、客家方言、客家语法、客家文化、海外客家社区。