  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.
