Penang Hokkien (Pī-néeng Hok-kiàn-uā/ 庇能福建話)
Native to: Malaysia
Region: Penang, parts of Kedah, Perak and Perlis
Language family: Sino-Tibetan
Linguasphere: 79-AAA-jek

Penang Hokkien

is a local variant of Hokkien spoken in Penang, Malaysia. It is the lingua franca among the majority Chinese population in Penang, as well as the neighbouring states of Kedah, Perlis and northern part of Perak. This Chinese dialect is spoken as a mother tongue by up to 63.9% of Penang's Chinese community. It is also spoken by some members of Penang's Indian and Malay communities.

Penang Hokkien is a subdialect of Zhangzhou (漳州; Hokkien: Tsiang-tsiu) Chinese, together with widespread use of Malay and English loan words. It is said that it most closely resembles that spoken in the district of Haicang (海滄) in Longhai (龍海; Hokkien: Liông-hái) county and in the districts of Jiaomei (角美) and Xinglin (杏林) in neighbouring Xiamen prefecture. In Southeast Asia, similar dialects are spoken in the states bordering Penang (Kedah, Perlis and northern Perak), as well as in Medan and North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is markedly distinct from Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien and Taiwanese Hokkien.

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Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Hokkien
https://penanghokkien.com/
https://www.penang-traveltips.com/dictionary/index.htm

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