Singlish
Sign in to savethumb|Exaggerated Singlish on an advertising board outside a cafe in Pulau Ubin
Key facts
- Language.name
- Singlish
- Language.states
- Singapore
- Language.region
- Southeast Asia
- Language.familycolor
- Creole
- Language.fam2
- English creole
- Language.script
- Latin
- Language.glotto
- sing1272
- Language.glottorefname
- Singlish
- Language.ietf
- cpe-SG
- Language.notice
- IPA
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Article
46 sectionsContents
- Creole continuum
- Example
- Origin and development
- Usage in society
- Phonology
- Variation
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Tone
- Prosody
- Grammar
- Topic prominence
- Nouns
- Copula
- Past tense
- Aspect
- Negation
- Interrogative
- Reduplication
- Discourse particles
- Singlish phrases
- ''Wah Lau/Walao''
- ''Kena''
- ''Tio''
- ''One''
- ''Then''
- ''Oi''
- ''Lah''
- ''Wat''
- ''Mah''
- ''Lor''
- ''Leh''
- ''Hor''
- ''Ar''
- ''Hah''
- ''Meh''
- ''Siah''
- ''Siao''
- Summary
- Miscellaneous
- Vocabulary
- See also
- Notes and references
- Sources cited
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Exaggerated Singlish on an advertising board outside a cafe in Pulau Ubin
Singlish (a portmanteau of Singapore and English), formally known as Colloquial Singaporean English, is an English-based creole language originating in Singapore. Singlish arose out of a situation of prolonged language contact between speakers of different languages in Singapore, including English, Malay, Cantonese, Hokkien (especially the Singaporean Hokkien variety), Mandarin (especially Singaporean Mandarin), Teochew, and Tamil. Singlish is spoken alongside Standard Singapore English in a diglossic manner, and represents the colloquial register of English used between locals. As such, Singlish is sometimes not regarded as a separate language from English in Singapore, but rather, a sub-variety of it, forming a lectal continuum with the standard language. Despite this, it is still linguistically an independent creole language. The term Singlish was first recorded in the early 1970s. Singlish has similar roots and is highly mutually intelligible with the Manglish spoken in Peninsular Malaysia.