Editing Peranakan Chinese (section)

==Ancestry==
A 2021 genetic study Singapore's Peranakan Chinese have Malay ancestry, with an average of 5–10%.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wu |first1=Degang |last2=Li |first2=Peter Yiqing |last3=Pan |first3=Bangfen |last4=Tiang |first4=Zenia |last5=Dou |first5=Jinzhuang |last6=Williantarra |first6=Ivanna |last7=Pribowo |first7=Amadeus Yeremia |last8=Nurdiansyah |first8=Rizky |last9=SG Peranakan Project |last10=Foo |first10=Roger S. Y. |last11=Wang |first11=Chaolong |date=27 September 2021 |title=Genetic Admixture in the Culturally Unique Peranakan Chinese Population in Southeast Asia |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |volume=38 |issue=10 |pages=4463–4474 |doi=10.1093/molbev/msab187 |issn=1537-1719 |pmc=8476152 |pmid=34152401}}</ref>

[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De echtgenotes van twee werknemers van de Singkep Tin Maatschappij Riouw TMnr 10007287.jpg|thumb|Two Peranakan women at a tin factory in [[Singkep|Pulau Singkep]], [[Riau Islands]].]]

Many Peranakans identify as Holoh ([[Hokkien]]) despite being of numerous origins, such as the descendants of adopted local Malaysian aborigines. A sizeable number are of [[Teochew people|Teochew]] or [[Hakka people|Hakka]] descent, including a small minority of [[Cantonese people|Cantonese]].

Baba Nyonya are a subgroup within Chinese communities. Peranakan families occasionally arranged brides from China for their sons or arranged marriages for their daughters with newly arrived Chinese immigrants.

There are parallels between the Peranakan Chinese and the [[Cambodian Hokkien]], who are descendants of Hoklo Chinese. Likewise the ''[[Malay-based creole languages#Baba Malay|Pashu]]'' of [[Myanmar]], a [[Burmese language|Burmese word]] for the '''Peranakan''' or Straits Chinese who have settled in Myanmar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Talks: Peranakan Museum: Preliminary Survey of the Peranakan in Myanmar 23 Oct 2009 |url=http://www.acm.org.sg/exhibitions/564.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310195406/http://www.acm.org.sg/exhibitions/564.html |archive-date=10 March 2014 |access-date=10 March 2014 |website=Asian Civilisations Museum |language=en }}</ref>

They maintained their culture partially despite their native language gradually disappearing a few generations after settlement.<ref name="Willmott1967">{{cite book|first=William E.|last=Willmott|title=The Chinese in Cambodia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MWgKAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Publications Centre, University of British Columbia|isbn=9780774800877 |access-date=16 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424211914/https://books.google.com/books?id=MWgKAQAAIAAJ|archive-date=24 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> <!-- [[YANG Jin Fong]] D.Mus., an Assistant Professor of [[National Cheng Kung University]], who say, Bā-bā is the Taiwanese pronunciation of the father, and Niû-liá is a Taiwanese pronunciation of "Mom." Niû-liá was a vulgar dialect, only a few of old persons use it, in Taiwan.-->

Popular myths by the Malays of the Peranakan Chinese in Malacca, Singapore, and Penang sometimes state exclusive descent from the royal retinue of an allegedly princess named Hang Li Po<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lgsquirrel.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/royal-blood/|title=Royal Blood|date=17 May 2014|access-date=14 January 2020|website=Realm of the Lone Grey Squirrel|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029100422/https://lgsquirrel.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/royal-blood/|archive-date=29 October 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyonyakitchen.my/|title=Siew Tin's Nyonya Kitchen|access-date=14 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106015319/http://www.nyonyakitchen.my/|archive-date=6 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>—alleged by the [[Malay Annals]] as having made a marriage of alliance with the Sultan of Malacca in the fifteenth century<ref>{{Cite book|title=Malay Annals|last=Anonymous|publisher=Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown|year=1821|location=London|pages=179–80|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Malay_Annals/Chapter_15|translator-last=Leyden|translator-first=John|access-date=14 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114031132/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Malay_Annals/Chapter_15|archive-date=14 January 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> however modern historians disproved the princess marriage as a false myth by the Malay Annals.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2012/01/16/prof-khoo-no-record-of-the-existance-of-princess-hang-li-po-its-a-myth|title=Prof Khoo: No record of the {{sic|nolink=y|exis|tance}} of Princess Hang Li Po; its a myth|date=16 January 2012|access-date=14 January 2020|website=The Star (Malaysia)|last=Kulasagaran|first=Priya|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823014655/http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2012/01/16/prof-khoo-no-record-of-the-existance-of-princess-hang-li-po-its-a-myth/|archive-date=23 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/04/228020/search-hang-li-po|title=The search for Hang Li Po|date=7 April 2017|access-date=14 January 2020|website=New Straits Times|last=Wain|first=Alexander|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511010633/http://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/04/228020/search-hang-li-po|archive-date=11 May 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>