• Singlish is the English-based creole or patois spoken colloquially in Singapore. English is one of Singapore's official languages, along with Malay (which...
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    process of creolization, Singlish became a fully-formed, stabilized and independent creole language, acquiring a more robust vocabulary and more complex grammar...
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  • and useless! Singlish is full of cultural nuances and wordplay, and it pulls together the best in the grammar, syntax, and vocabulary of many languages...
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  • Kiasu (redirect from Kiasu (singlish))
    part of the vocabulary of Singapore's colloquial language, Singlish. Singlish is an English-based creole language comprising vocabulary from Chinese...
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  • Manglish (redirect from Manglish vocabulary)
    intelligible with Singlish, a creole of similar roots. There is little distinction between the two creoles except that Manglish vocabulary contains more Malay...
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  • Singlish has been subjected to, it has been proclaimed the 'quintessential mark of Singaporean-ness' and its usage has continued unabated. Singlish tends...
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  • the island of St. Kitts Asia Manglish, English-based, spoken in Malaysia Singlish, English-based, spoken in Singapore Europe Angloromani, English-based,...
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  • of English is spoken known as Singlish. Though very similar, Manglish today receives more Malay influences while Singlish more Chinese. Despite being traditionally-based...
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  • English-based counterpart Singlish. It is based on Mandarin but has a large amount of English and Malay in its vocabulary. There are also words from...
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  • Singdarin Singfest Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs Singlife Singlish Singlish vocabulary Singtel Singtel TV Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse Sinnadurai...
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  • increased. In fact, the merging of the two languages resulted in a so-called "Singlish", which remains a significant feature of Sri Lankan English. That period...
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  • English, and Singaporean Colloquial English, which is better known as Singlish. Singapore is a cosmopolitan society. For example, in 2015, among Singaporeans...
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  • Singaporean Mandarin. Colloquial Singaporean Mandarin is the equivalent of Singlish in the Mandarin speaking world of Singapore. The word "Singdarin" has been...
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  • English-based pidgins Non-native pronunciations of English Polandball Singlish Raymond Hickey, Standards of English: Codified Varieties Around the World...
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  • List of Spanish words of Chinese origin Chinese Pidgin English Chinglish Singlish This word has the Wade–Giles romanization of ch'i, but the rough breathing...
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    Diglossia (section Singlish)
    2015). "The rise of Singlish". BBC News. Lu, Luke (2024-03-11). "Who's being elitist? A debate about the enregisterment of Singlish". Language in Society:...
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  • like that - "Iboh polah kedak ya bah." It is similar in use to "lah" in Singlish and in West Malaysia. E.g.: Don't do like that 'lah'. Some words in Sarawakian...
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  • Dialects are linguistic varieties that may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, and other aspects of grammar. For the classification of varieties...
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    Hinglish (Hindi), Konglish (Korean), Taglish (Tagalog), Bislish (Visayan), Singlish (in Singapore), Ponglish (Polish) and Tinglish (Thai). The Oxford English...
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  • on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2016. Jack Tsen-Ta Lee. "A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English". Archived from the original on 19 January 2016....
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  • Mandarin/Cantonese) and sometimes will end sentences with "lah" (from Singlish). Lebanese Australian English (LAusE) has been prescribed as a new dialect...
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  • provides the basis for the majority of a pidgin or creole language's vocabulary (lexicon). Often this language is also the dominant, or superstrate language...
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    main ones being mid- to late 1800s Malay-area Pidgin English (but not Singlish, one of its modern representatives), Pacific Pidgin and Jamaican Patois...
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  • English was the lexifier, meaning that at the time of its formation the vocabulary of English served as the basis for the majority of the creole's lexicon...
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  • Singapore is gradually being replaced by English, with English and its creole Singlish being the lingua franca among the younger generations. A pidginised variant...
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    English Phonemic differentiation Regional accents of English Chinglish Singlish Macanese Portuguese Code-switching in Hong Kong Education in Hong Kong...
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    languages became a school subject in the 2000s. Taiwanese Mandarin (as with Singlish and many other situations of a creole speech community) is spoken at different...
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  • types of English spoken in Singapore: Standard Singapore English and Singlish. Singlish is more widely spoken than Standard English. It has a very distinctive...
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    2012. "Little red dot" at the Double-Tongued Dictionary "Little red dot" at the Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English Portals: Society Singapore...
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    most commonly Mandarin, Malay, Tamil or Singapore Colloquial English (Singlish). Singapore Standard English is virtually the same as British, Malaysian...
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