Chinese features prominently in the Chinese communities located in the nations of Malay Archipelago. In these countries, Chinese has undergone the process of adjustment to the local languages and cultures, which leads to the occurrence of a Chinese variant in each country. In this paper, we conducted a quantitative analysis on Chinese news texts collected from five Malay Archipelago nations, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Brunei, trying to figure out their differences with the texts written in modern standard Chinese from a lexical and syntactic perspective. The statistical results show that the Chinese variants used in these five nations are quite different, diverging from their modern Chinese mainland counterpart. Meanwhile, we managed to extract and classify several featured Chinese words used in each nation. All these discrepancies reflect how Chinese evolves overseas, and demonstrate the profound impact rom local societies and cultures on the development of Chinese.

该研究通过对收集自印度尼西亚，马来西亚，新加坡，菲律宾和文莱的中文新闻文本进行词汇和句法方面的量化分析，发现这些地区所使用的汉语存在较多的差异性，并提取和分类了每个国家使用的中文单词，这反映了汉语在海外的演变和本地文化对汉语发展的深刻影响。

马来群岛地区汉语的区域方言差异分析