Hinglish
Sign in to saveHinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of colloquial Hindi and English. Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. In spoken contexts, it typically involves code-switching or translanguaging between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences.
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Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of colloquial Hindi and English. Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. In spoken contexts, it typically involves code-switching or translanguaging between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences.
In written contexts, Hinglish colloquially refers to Romanised Hindi—Hindustani written in Roman script (i.e., English alphabet), instead of the traditional scripts such as Devanagari or Nastaliq—often with English lexical borrowings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hinglish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.