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Also known as Malaysian pidgin English

Manglish is an informal or basilect form of Malaysian English with features of an English-based creole principally used in Malaysia. It is heavily influenced by the main languages of the country, Malay, Tamil, and varieties of Chinese. It is highly colloquial and not one of the official languages spoken in Malaysia.

Key facts

Language.name
Manglish
Language.altname
Manglish Creole/Pidgin, Malaysian Pidgin English
Language.region
Malaysia
Language.familycolor
Creole
Language.fam1
English Creole
Language.iso3
none
Language.glotto
none
Language.ietf
cpe-MY
Language.notice
IPA

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

25 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Malaysian English and Manglish
  • Influences from other languages
  • Duplication of words
  • Words and grammar
  • Nouns
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Verbs
  • Interjections
  • Grammar
  • Phrases
  • Particles
  • ''Lah''
  • ''Loh''
  • ''Meh''
  • Phonology
  • Usage of Manglish on the Internet
  • Miscellaneous
  • Pronouns
  • Noun phrases
  • Comparisons with Singlish
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Manglish is an informal or basilect form of Malaysian English with features of an English-based creole principally used in Malaysia. It is heavily influenced by the main languages of the country, Malay, Tamil, and varieties of Chinese. It is highly colloquial and not one of the official languages spoken in Malaysia.

Manglish spoken in West Malaysia is very similar to and highly mutually intelligible with Singlish of Singapore, a creole of similar roots due to historical reasons. There is generally little distinction between the two creoles although subtle differences do exist, with Manglish vocabulary containing more Malay words while Singlish containing more words from Chinese languages such as Hokkien (Min Nan) and Teochew.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Manglish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.