Language as an inseparable part of culture shapes culture, as well as being formed by the culture itself. Tangerang is composed by people of different cultures with the majority of natives speak Sundanese-Tangerang. Some Tangerang locals are also Chinese-born whose language is highly influenced by Hokkian (being the ancestors’ language). This essay is intended to find out how the culture (of Chinese) and the Chinese-Hokkian shaped and influenced Tangerang’s local inhabitants’ culture, specifically its language. It is concluded that many words which are originated from Hokkian are maintained in their original forms which may be due to several reasons in that those words referred to new cultural items to the locals (of Sundanese), the words are more valued in Hokkian dialect by the locals (both of Sundanese and Chinese-Indonesian in Tangerang), and there were no equivalent words in Sundanese to mean the concept. These words are mostly comprised of surrounding items, food names, business and relationship, and others. These words have not gone through any change even in their pronunciation. They are used as they are in Hokkian and bear the same meaning as they are.

Keywords: language, Chinese-Hokkian, Sundanese-Tangerang.