Singlish vocabulary
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singlish-vocabulary-187-7791796
title:
Singlish vocabulary
text:
Singlish is the English-based creole or patois spoken colloquially in Singapore. English is one of Singapore's official languages, along with Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. Although English is the lexifier language, Singlish has its unique slang and syntax, which are more pronounced in informal speech. It is usually a mixture of English, Hokkien, Cantonese, Malay, and Tamil, and sometimes other Chinese languages like Teochew, Hainanese, Hakka, Hockchew, and Mandarin. For example, pek chek means to
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Vocabulary of colloquial English in Singapore
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish_vocabulary
date created:
2006-09-13T03:57:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T11:19:01Z
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