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	Beautiful_Baba _Nyonya
		The Language spoken by the Baba- Nyonya is a mixture of Malay and Hokkien
		Babas refer to the male descendants and the Nyonya the female.
		In fact the term "Baba" is an honorific term in Malay; probably derived from Hindi/Sanskrit [Baba: literally means grandfather or father, and is used as a term of reverence and affection for an elderly gentleman].
	koyli.com /babanyonya.htm (1299 words)

	Rare Baba texts
		In the golden age of the Babas however, Cheki was as addictive as Mah-jong is to the Chinese of today, and such was the gambling craze associated with this game that small fortunes were often lost over a hand.
		The Syair in this book tries to chronicle the foolishness of a lady who manages not only to lose a small fortune from playing Cheki, but also fails in her attempts to deceive her husband after she is caught by the police for illegal gambling.
		Books printed in Baba Malay are extremely rare to come by and this edition of the Syair could well be the only copy around.
	www.sabrizain.org /malaya/cheki.htm (193 words)

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		The rise of Baba Malay as a lingua franca in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries reflected the economic importance of the Chinese.
		Thus Baba Malay is a special creolized form of the wider form of Bazaar Malay, arising from the latter as an early pidgin or pidginized variety.
		Baba Malay spoken in Penang is also held to be different from the variety spoken in Malacca and elsewhere because of the greater influence of Hokkien and English.
	www.lewismicropublishing.com /Publications/BabaNonya/BabaNonya6.htm (6197 words)

	Peranakan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In fact the term "Baba" is an honorific term in Malay; probably derived from Hindi/Sanskrit [Baba: literally means grandfather or father, and is used as a term of reverence and affection for an elderly gentleman].
		Historical and cultural items from the Baba culture are displayed in cultural establishments on Heeren Street and Jonker Street in Malacca and in Penang in Malaysia, and at the Peranakan Museum in Singapore.
		For instance, from their Malay influence, a unique "Nyonya" cuisine has developed using the spices of Malay cuisine (examples are Chicken Kapitan, a dry chicken curry, and Inchi Kabin, a Nyonya version of fried chicken).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nyonya (1104 words)

	Malay-based creole languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a mixture between Malay or Indonesian with local Javanese (East Javanese dialect) and Chinese elements (particularly Hakka).
		Manado Malay is another creole which is spoken as a lingua franca, particularly in Manado and Minahasa, North Sulawesi.
		Malay had been taught in schools and churches in Ambon, since that, Malay has become a lingua franca in Ambon and its surroundings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baba_Malay (1478 words)

	baba - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Baba Yaga, a witch in Russian and Slavonic folktales, said to be the devil's grandmother.
		Ali Baba, in folklore, the hero of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” in the collection of stories known in English as the Arabian Nights.
		The continental mainland stretches from the southern end of the Malay Peninsula to Cape Chelyuskin in Siberia.
	au.encarta.msn.com /baba.html (156 words)

	Babas And Nyonyas in Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baba Malay as a lingua franca had been on the decline from the '20s onwards, and after Merdeka, English became the most important lingua franca.
		Although the level of Baba Malay tended to be still high among the older generation, it was deteriorating among, and not transmitted to, the younger generation.
		In Singapore, only the traditional Baba wedding was perceived by observers such as Seow Peck Leng of the Young Women's Christian Association in 1968 as a "concrete proof that the spirit of co-operation, tolerance and compromise did exist between the early Chinese immigrants and the early Malay residents of Singapore".
	www.asiawind.com /pub/forum/fhakka/mhonarc/msg01319.html (2488 words)

	baba - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Baba Yaga, the name given to an old witch who appears in many Russian folktales.
		In the Slavic languages, the word baba means “old woman.” Baba Yaga...
		Ali Baba, in folktale, the hero of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” in the collection of stories known in English as Arabian Nights.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /baba.html (157 words)

	Kebaya \| Nyonya Kebaya - Peranakan
		Babas refer to the male descendants and the Nyonyas the female.
		In fact the term "Baba" is an honorific term in Malay; probably derived from Hindi/Sanskrit [Baba: literally means grandfather or father, and is used as a term of reverence and affection for an elderly gentleman].
		For instance, from their Malay influence, a unique "Nyonya" cuisine has developed using the spices of Malay cuisine (examples are Chicken Kapitan, a dry chicken curry, and Inchi Kabin, a Nyonya version of fried chicken).
	www.kebayas.com /peranakan.html (1201 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Malay is also spoken in Brunei (only in formal domains like religion and government and is taught in schools up to third grade); Indonesia (Sumatra) (10,000,000 including 2,000,000 in Riau, 40,000 in Bangka, and 170,000 in Belitung); Myanmar, Singapore (396,000 or 15.5% of the population); Thailand, UAE, USA.
		Malay is one of 38 languages of the Local Malay group that ultimately belongs to the western part of the Malayo-Polynesian group of the Austronesian family of languages, which contains about 1,262 languages in total.
		In contemporary Malay society, Malay is considered to be the standard language for speech and conversation by all the inhabitants of the Malay archipelago - encompassing within its boundaries a plethora of different cultures and sub-ethnic groups that are divided not only by geographic but also religious and other boundaries as well.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=91&menu=004 (1252 words)

	SPEECH BY DR YAACOB IBRAHIM,MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER RESOURCES AND MINISTER-IN-CHARGE OF MUSLIM AFFAIRS, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The emergence of Malay newspapers in the late 19th century as the voice of the intelligentsia, contributed to the rapid development of Malay literature and Malay consciousness and nationalism.
		Malay newspapers and then magazines came to be regarded as vehicles for reflecting on trends and generating new ideas.
		Baba Malay, a creole of Malay, worked its magic on traditional Malay art forms of pantun and dondang sayang, giving rise to a unique blend of performance art that continues to hold sway to this day.
	app.sprinter.gov.sg /data/pr/20070118997.htm (1062 words)

	Preserving Baba Nyonya Culture, Dialect Among Descendants :: Bernama.com
		The Babas and Nyonyas who are usually identified with Melaka are the descendants of the early Chinese immigrants who settled in Melaka, Singapore, Penang and Java.
		Chan's worries are not unfounded as the culture, traditions and language of the Baba Nyonya community began to erode since British colonisation in the 18th century.
		The Baba Nyonya Melaka Heritage Museum signifies Chan's aspiration to introduce the community to the world via the quaint house which was built in 1896 by his ancestors.
	www.bernama.com /bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=211601 (1042 words)

	Baba \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Jaroslav Baba, a Czech high jumper.A comedic alias used for Gary Dell'Abate (Baba Booey), producer of the Howard Stern Show.Derived from its original meaning of father, the name has become a term of endearment in India, especially for religious figures, e.g.
		Baba O'Riley - First track from the album Who's Next by British Rock and Roll group The Who.Baba (馬場), is a Japanese surname.Various types of cuisine:A traditional Polish cuisine yeast cake, also known as babka or baba warszawska.
		A rum baba or baba au rhum is a small yeast cake saturated in liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with cream.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Baba/English (355 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Malay-based creoles
		It is a Malay spoken by Chinese descendants who live in Malaysia and Indonesia.
		It is a mixture between Malay or Bahasa Indonesia with local Javanese (East Javanese dialect) and Chinese elements (particularly Hakka).
		Malay began influencing it after the waves of other Malay settlers went several centuries AD.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Baba_Malay (1553 words)

	Nyonya Recipes - Heritage Cuisine Of Asia
		Baba families stood apart from the Chinese immigrants who came to Malaya later as laborers - they were wealthy and established, they held British citizenship, and they possessed a distinct Malay-influenced domestic culture and cuisine.
		Confined as it was to the domestic sphere of a small and elite social group, Nyonya food was not widely known and appreciated until after the independence of the Malay peninsula and the social changes that have occurred between Malaysia and Singapore that have made it so.
		Sweet potato leaves, tiny sour carambola, unripe jackfruit and the heart of the banana bud are all transformed in the kitchen, added to and blended with aromatic leaves such as kaffir, turmeric, pandan, and polygonum or laksa leaf.
	www.asianrecipesonline.com /nyonya/baba_nyonya.php (754 words)

	peranakan.org.sg - Peranakan History
		The Babas are descendants of an early Chinese community that settled in the Malay archipelago at least since the 17th century.
		In the 18th and 19th centuries the Babas were involved in opium, sireh, nutmeg and liquor farming, pepper and gambier cultivation, tin mining, commodity trading and property.
		However the growth in Baba cultural activities as well as in memberships of Baba organisations indicate a growing awareness of the community's heritage and the importance of seeing it into the future.
	peranakan.org.sg /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=56 (383 words)

	Singlish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After some time, this new form of English, now loaded with substantial influences from Indian English, Baba Malay, and the southern varieties of Chinese, became the language of the streets and began to be learned "natively" in its own right.
		This is because in the original Malay, 'lah' is appended to the end of the word and is not a separate word by itself.
		In Malay, 'lah' is used to change a verb into a command or to soften its tone, particularly when usage of the verb may seem impolite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Singlish (7267 words)

	Malay-based creoles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is on archaic Malay which mixed mostly with Portuguese and local languages.
		Malay had been taught schools and churches in Ambon since that has become a lingua franca in Ambon and its surroundings.
		Ambonese Malay is based on Malay with influences from European languages (Dutch and Portuguese) well as indigenous ones either vocabularies or structures.
	www.freeglossary.com /Malay-based_creoles (1069 words)

	Sathya Sai Baba Current Newspapers Articles Press Media
		Hardly a few metres from Shirdi's Sai Baba temple, he sits in the waiting room of a super speciality hospital, waiting for his father's bypass surgery to be completed...
		According to Shri Sathya Sai Baba his leelas are evidence of his divinity.
		The recent articles and letters on Sai Baba miracles have prompted many of your readers to share their viewpoints on scriptures, miracles and manifestations...
	www.saibabalinks.org /saibabainthemedia.htm (858 words)

	Malacca Culture & Heritage : Malacca Baba Nyonya, Peranakan, Portugues
		While Malacca has a multi-racial population of Malays, Chinese and Indians reflecting the overall racial make-up of Malaysia, it is the Peranakan and Portuguese culture that is still practised by a few descendant communities that attracts visitors.
		It is still a subject of debate whether the Peranakans actually intermarried with the local Malay population or maintained a pure bloodline, but most are said to be of Hokkien ancestry.
		Their most notable musical entertainment form is the 'Dondang Sayang'; or 'Love Song' where Babas and Nyonyas exchanged poems in a humorous style, accompanied by a violin, accordion and traditional instruments; the Rebana and Gong.
	www.malacca.ws /info/culture-heritage.htm (559 words)

	Malaysia Hotels DotCC A Malaysian Portal Of Hotel Lodging
		The history of Malacca is largely the story of the city for which it is named, and the story of the city of Malacca begins with the fascinating and partly legendary tale of the Hindu prince Parameswara.
		The Malay Annals relate that Parameswara was a fourteenth-century Palembang prince who, fleeing from a Javanese enemy, escaped to the island of Temasik (present-day Singapore) and quickly established himself as its king.
		The Baba and Nyonya Heritage Museum, 'Straits Chinese' or the Baba and Nyonya, are Chinese of noble descendants that have adopted much of the Malay culture into theirs.
	www.malaysiahotels.cc /malacca.html (2514 words)

	C.M. Woon: Historical Contexts of the Baba Community in The Advocate's Devil (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis Chiang speaks of "Babas" (the men, though also used as a general term), "Nyonyas" (the women), and "Bibiks" (elderly ladies) as well as of "Straits-born Chinese" and "the King's Chinese".
		The Babas are descendants of Chinese immigrants that settled in the Malay archipelago as early as the 17th century.
		To his would-be girlfriend Siew Chin, his combination of the ideal English gentleman with his Baba background marks him out as "some strange laboratory specimen:” "The concept of a non-Chinese-speaking Chinese was evidently a contradiction in terms to her” (192).
	www.postcolonialweb.org /singapore/literature/woon/baba.html (478 words)

	DoBeS — Sri Lanka Malay - Project
		Baba Malay, Cocos Malay) – is in a unique position of providing us with an environment in which no Standard Average European acrolectal variety is involved in the dynamics of contact, its main adstrates being Sinhala and Tamil.
		Sri Lanka Malay has never been a language for public discourse in the country, though it was widely spoken as a home language for some generations (Hussainmiya 1986), with the community being at least bi- if not multilingual.
		Consequently, Sri Lanka Malay parents with the resources make the conscious decision to speak to their children in English at home (also attested to in Saldin 2001:26); this is particularly true of the Colombo Malay community, which ironically is the community which would have the resources to promote and maintain SLM.
	www.mpi.nl /DOBES/projects/slm/project (702 words)

	Baba Malay Language
		The rise of Baba Malay as a lingua franca in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries reflected the economic importance of the Chinese--it represented the growth of a pidginized Malay to a Creole Malay featuring a syntactic reduction and simplification.
		"Baba Malay" is structurally and lexically the same as other vernacular dialects of Malay, with only a few phonological "dialectical" variations in the form of glottal stops, dipthongs, final alveolars and fricatives.
		Victor Purcell, in his book The Chinese in Malaya (1948), declared that Baba Malay was different from Malay in many important respects, and is "practically a different language." He stated that a great many Malay words were unknown to the Babas, as well as the "more polished syntax of the Malay.
	www.lewismicropublishing.com /Publications/Peranakan/PeranakanLanguage.htm (2088 words)

	Baba Malay dictionary launched
		A Baba Malay Dictionary is written by Peranakan writer William Gwee Thian Hock and published by Periplus, in conjunction with the Peranakan Association of Singapore.
		Baba Malay is a mixture of Malay and Hokkien and its origins can be traced to the arrival of Chinese male immigrants to Malacca around the early 17th century.
		Baba Malay, however, is a spoken language of its own, distinct from Malay.
	thestar.com.my /lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2006/9/8/lifebookshelf/15236010&sec=lifebookshelf (225 words)

	Peranakan Summary
		The word "Peranakan" is Malay for someone who is "local born" of mixed ancestry, but it is now almost exclusively used to refer to the Chinese community.
		The Peranakans were partially assimilated into the Malay culture (especially in food, dress, and language), while retaining some Chinese traditions (religion, name, and ethnic identitity), thereby creating a fusion culture of their own.
		In Malaysia, the standardization of Malay as Bahasa Melayu - required for all ethnic groups - has led to a disappearance of the unique characteristics of Baba Malay.
	www.bookrags.com /Peranakan (1391 words)

	Singapore Real Estate : Property2u.com
		The national language is officially Malay, although English is the dominating language.
		As Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of semi-indigenous Malay population with the majority Chinese and the minority Indian and Arab migrants with little intermarriage, there appears little in the way of specifically Singaporean culture.
		Singlish is basically identical to Manglish (the English dialect of Malaysia), and is the usual language on the streets, but is frowned upon in official contexts, and this matter has been brought up in recent years in the Parliament and the ruling party.
	singapore.property2u.com /history.php?point=People_in_Singapore.html (736 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
		Her baba Malay--the Malay spoken by assimilated Chinese--the idiomatic turns of her ethnic identity, was a waterfall whose drops showered me with sensuous music.
		Scatological phrases, wickedly funny and nasty comments on neighbors and relatives, numerous commands, an infinite list of do's and don'ts, her Malay speech was all social, all appearance and lively, never solo, always interweaving among familiar partners.
		Baba and Emak were the bedrock, that which could not be lost, although they might lose each other and themselves.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/amongthewhitemoonfaces.htm (9094 words)

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