Manglish
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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 sectionsContents
- 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.