The Chinese community in Batu Pahat town is the majority ethnic group and most of them are Hokkien. They are the descendants of people migrated from southern Fujian Province (Quanzhou, Xiamen and Zhangzhou). Therefore, Hokkien or Min Nan is vernacular in this region, followed by Teochew from Chaozhou region of Guangdong province, with significant minorities of Hakka, Cantonese and Hainanese dialect speakers. Batu Pahat Chinese community usually converse in Southern Malaysia Hokkien or Mandarin due to its media reception in the area. The form of Hokkien spoken by most of the citizens of Batu Pahat is Southern Malaysia Hokkien, which is distinct from Penang Hokkien or Northern Malaysia Hokkien.
