Editing Chitty (section)

{{Short description|Tamil ethnic group in Malaysia and Singapore}}
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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Chitty<br/><small>Peranakan Chitty</small>
| pop              = '''~5000'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://roots.sg/learn/stories/chetti-melaka|title=Chetti Melaka of the Straits - Rediscovering Peranakan Indian Communities|website=www.roots.sg|access-date=15 June 2020|archive-date=11 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811073502/https://www.roots.sg/learn/stories/chetti-melaka|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| popplace         = {{Flag|Malaysia}} ([[Melaka]]){{·}}{{Flag|Singapore}}
| langs            = [[Malaysian language|Malay]] ([[Malay Chetty creole language|Chitty Malay]]){{·}}[[English language|English]]
| related          = [[Tamils]]{{·}}[[Telugus]]{{·}}[[Malays (ethnic group)|Malays]]{{·}}[[Peranakan]]{{·}}[[Indian Malaysians]]{{·}}[[Indian Singaporeans]]
| rels             = [[Hinduism]]
}}

The '''Chitty''', also known as the '''Chetty''' or '''Chetti Melaka''', are an ethnic group whose members are of primarily [[Tamils|Tamil]] descent, found mainly and initially in [[Melaka]], [[Malaysia]], where they settled around the 16th century, and in [[Singapore]] where they migrated to in the 18th and 19th centuries from Melaka. Also known colloquially as "Indian Peranakans", the culture of the Chitty has drawn significant influence from the [[Nusantara (term)|Nusantara]] region and to a small extent the Chinese, whilst also retaining their Hindu faith and heritage.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/meet-chetti-melaka-peranakan-indians-striving-save-culture-hindu-10849258|title=Meet the Chetti Melaka, or Peranakan Indians, striving to save their vanishing culture|website=CNA}}</ref> In the 21st century, their population stands at 2,000. The Chitty/Chetti community are different from [[Chettiar]], bankers brought from [[Tamil Nadu]] to [[British Malaya]]. They are practising Hindus.