The name o the Hakka fowk who are the predominant oreeginal native speakers o the leid literally means ""guest families"" or ""guest fowk"": Hak 客 (Mandarin: kè) means ""guest"", an ka 家 (Mandarin: jiā) means ""family"". Amangst themselves, Hakka fowk variously cawed their leid Hak-ka-fa (-va) 客家話, Hak-fa (-va), 客話, Tu-gong-dung-fa (-va) 土廣東話, literally, ""Native Guangdong language,"" an Ngai-fa (-va) 話, ""Ma/oor leid"".