The Peranakan of Malaysia, numbering approximately 5,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Straits-born Chinese people, called Baba and Nyonya, whose roughly 600-year lineage began in the 15th-century Melaka Sultanate when Chinese traders married local Malay and Javanese women, developing a hybrid Peranakan language and blended customs. They mostly adhere to Chinese Folk Religion and Malay (individual language) is their primary language.