Editing Peranakan Chinese (section)

==Language==
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[[File:Tjhit Liap Seng cover.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.70|''[[Tjhit Liap Seng]]'' (1886) by [[Lie Kim Hok]] was considered the first Chinese Malay novel.]]

The language of the Peranakans, [[Malay-based creole languages#Baba Malay|Baba Malay]] (''Bahasa Melayu Baba'') or Peranakan Malay, is a [[creole language]] related to the [[Malay language]] (''Bahasa Melayu''), which contains many [[Hokkien]] words. It is a dying language, and its contemporary use is mainly limited to members of the older generation. It is common for the Peranakan of the older generation (particularly among women) to ''[[latah]]'' in Peranakan Malay when experiencing unanticipated shock.<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Bures|title=The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes|year=2016|publisher=Melville House|isbn=978-16-121-9373-1|page=69}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Kok Seong Teo|title=A Sociolinguistic Description of the Peranakan Chinese of Kelantan, Malaysia, Volume 1|year=1993|publisher=University of California|oclc=1038840747|page=83}}</ref>

The Peranakan Malay spoken by the Malaccan Peranakans community is strongly based on the [[Malay language]] as most of them can only speak little to none of the language of their Chinese forebears.<ref>{{cite book|author=Zhiming Bao|title=The Making of Vernacular Singapore English: System, Transfer, and Filter|year=2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-02208-9}}</ref> Whereas in the east coast of [[Peninsula Malaysia]], the Peranakans are known to not only speak a Hokkien version of their own but also [[Thai language|Thai]] and [[Kelantanese Malay]] in [[Kelantan]] and [[Terengganu Malay]] in [[Terengganu]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tan |first=Chee-Beng |year=2010 |title=Peranakan Chinese in Northeast Kelantan with special reference to Chinese Religion |journal=Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society |language=en |volume=55 |issue=1(242) |pages=26–52 |asin=B004124IMY |jstor=41492910}}</ref><ref name="STperanakanganu" /> Unlike the rest of the Peranakans in Malaysia, Penang Peranakans are much heavily influenced by a dialect of Hokkien known locally as [[Penang Hokkien]].

In [[Indonesia]], the Peranakan language is mainly based on Indonesian and [[Javanese language|Javanese]], which is mixed with elements of different [[Chinese varieties]], mostly Hokkien. Speakers of the Peranakan language can be found scattered along the northern coastline area throughout [[West Java]], [[Central Java]] and [[East Java]], and also in [[Special Region of Yogyakarta]], Indonesia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/pea |title=Indonesian, Peranakan |publisher=ethnologue |access-date=17 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921140214/http://www.ethnologue.com/language/pea |archive-date=21 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Young Peranakans can still speak this creole language, although its use is limited to informal occasions.