displayed certain Sino-Malay syncretic physical attributes. [ 10 ] Ancestry Most Peranakan are of Hoklo (Hokkien) ancestry, although a sizable number are of Teochew or Cantonese descent. Originally, the Peranakan were part Chinese, part Malay. Baba Nyonya are a subgroup within Chinese communities, are the descendants of Sino-indigenous unions in Melaka