What nationality do the Hakkas belong to?

Hakkas do not belong to ethnic minorities.

Hakka, a Han nationality whose mother tongue is Hakka, is an important part of local residents in China, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and Taiwan Province provinces. Hakka, as an ancient Han immigrant group in the south, is one of the most widely distributed and far-reaching ethnic groups in the world.

Hakka originated in Qin Zheng Lingnan Rongbaiyue period and developed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties. At the latest in the Southern Song Dynasty, a relatively stable ethnic group-Hakkas was formed.

It is estimated that there are about 80 million Hakkas in the world. Among them, about 50 million people are distributed in more than 80 cities and counties in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi, Sichuan and Hainan provinces. There are about 25 million local Hakkas in Guangdong province, accounting for one-third of the local ethnic groups in Guangdong.

Extended data:

Hakkas are an important group and have lived in southern China for more than 2,000 years since the Qin Dynasty. It is one of the major local ethnic groups in Guangdong (Guangfu, Hakka, Chaoshan, Gaoliang, Siyi, Hailufeng, Shao Min in northern Guangdong, etc.) and one of the important local ethnic groups in Jiangxi and Fujian.

Several major ethnic groups in Guangdong are all mixed and assimilated by the earliest indigenous Baiyue in Lingnan. Hakka clans did not form later than other clans in Guangdong. Because Hakka dialect was originally elegant in the Central Plains, it only absorbed some indigenous languages in the South, but the main body in the Middle Ages was still elegant.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Hakka