Alternate Names: Chitties Creole Malay
Dialects: None known. May be historically related to Sri Lankan Creole Malay ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: Ethnic population: 300.
Language Use: Shifting to Baba Malay [mbf] or Malay [zlm]. Additionally, intermarriage and out-migration are shrinking the community (Mohammed 2009).
Language Development: Dictionary.
Writing System: Unwritten
Nation of Origin: Malaysia
Other Comments: Spoken since the 16th century by descendants of Tamil merchants who intermarried with other groups. Speakers are called Chitties (Lim 1981; Holm 1989).