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Population:Singkawang's population is about 170,000 residents, of which 45% are Chinese descent, 29% are Melayu, 9% Dayak, 10% Madurese,7% are Batak, Javanese and other ethnicities.
Besides the national language of Indonesia, the Chinese dialect of Hakka is commonly used by the general population, including the non-Chinese ethnic groups. Each of the larger groups, such as Melayu and Dayak, use their own dialects, so an average educated person speaks three languages.The distribution of the religion practically follows the distribution of the ethnic groups; the largest groups are Buddhist, Confusius, Protestant, Islam and Catholics.Singkawang people use Indonesian as the primary language in conversation, trading but also using their own mother tongue. As Singkawang consist of 3 major ethnics, Chinese, Melayu and Dayak and Hakka Chinese is the most among all, then almost all of the Singkawang people use Hakka for conversation beside Indonesian, even some parts of the other ethnic people can use it too. The Indonesian used in Singkawang commonly for daily conversation is not a pure Indonesian, but added with a bit melayu style of the vocabulary as melayu language is the closest language with Indonesian, yet Singkawang people had been years accustomed to such language.