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
famHy and commonly found in this variety. The paper concludes with
some observations of current trends in Penang Peranakan Hokkien.