This study is apt after all, the Baba culture right now is being disintegrated, even back in 1980, Chia (1980: viii) then wrote, “I did not marry a Nyonya and my children speak only a little and faulty Baba Malay, the patois first Babas spoke.
It is a corrupt form of the Malay language which includes words and phrases of the Hokkien
dialect”.
in Singapore as they and the author see it