Konglish
Sign in to saveAlso known as Konglishi, Korean-style English, hangugeo-sik yeongeo, konggeullisi, Korlish, Korenglish, Korglish, Kinglish
thumb|alt=Korean-style English|Korean-style English Konglish (; ), more formally Korean-style English (; ), comprises English and other foreign-language loanwords that have been borrowed into Korean, and includes many that are used in ways that are not readily understandable to native English speakers. A common example is the Korean term "hand phone" for the English "mobile phone". Konglish also has direct English loanwords, mistranslations from English to Korean, or pseudo-English words coined in Japanese that came to Korean usage. Sociolinguistically, South Koreans use English to denote luxu
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- Examples
- Loanwords from Japan
- Pseudo-Konglish loanwords
- Debate
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|alt=Korean-style English|Korean-style English Konglish (; ), more formally Korean-style English (; ), comprises English and other foreign-language loanwords that have been borrowed into Korean, and includes many that are used in ways that are not readily understandable to native English speakers. A common example is the Korean term "hand phone" for the English "mobile phone". Konglish also has direct English loanwords, mistranslations from English to Korean, or pseudo-English words coined in Japanese that came to Korean usage. Sociolinguistically, South Koreans use English to denote luxury, youth, sophistication, and modernity.
The term is a portmanteau of the names of the two languages and was first recorded earliest in 1975. Other less common terms include: Korlish (recorded from 1988), Korenglish (1992), Korglish (2000) and Kinglish (2000). The use of Konglish is widespread in South Korea as a result of US cultural influence, but it is not familiar to North Koreans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Konglish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.