A study of Penang Peranakan Hokkien
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This paper attempts to classify the loan words in Penang Peranakan Hokkien, a creole variety of Hokkien, according to classifications as objects and formal grammatical categories. The study is based on a word list of about 400 Malay words taken from a Penang Peranakan family and commonly found in this variety. The paper concludes with some observations of current trends in Penang Peranakan Hokkien.
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Teoh, B. S., Lim, B. S., & Lee, L. H. (2017). A study of Penang Peranakan Hokkien. Journal of Modern Languages, 15(1), 169–181. Retrieved from https://jml.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3992
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