Kelantan Peranakan Hokkien Explained

Kelantan Peranakan Hokkien
Also Known As:Hokkien Kelantan, Kelantan Local Hokkien
States:Malaysia
Region:Kelantan
Speakers:20,000
Date:2021
Familycolor:Mixed
Family:mixed HokkienSouthern ThaiKelantan Malay
Iso3:none
Glotto:none

Kelantan Peranakan Hokkien or Hokkien Kelantan is a mixed language spoken by about 20,000 people in Kelantan, in northern Malaysia. It derives from Hokkien Chinese, Southern Thai and Kelantan Malay, with increasing influence from standard Malay. It is not mutually intelligible with mainstream Hokkien, and speakers do not identify as ethnically Hokkien.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20210919021444/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KIRINPUTRA/reclassifying-ISO-639-3-nan/main/Reclassifying_ISO_639-3_%5Bnan%5D__An_Empirical_Approach_to_Mutual_Intelligibility_and_Ethnolinguistic_Distinctions.pdf . 2021-09-19 . Reclassifying ISO 639-3 [nan]

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