![]() ![]() Singlish shares many linguistic similarities with Manglish or Bazaar Malay of Malaysia, although a few distinctions can be made, particularly in vocabulary. Through this process of creolization, Singlish became a fully-formed, stabilized and independent creole language, acquiring a more robust vocabulary and more complex grammar, with fixed phonology, syntax, morphology, and syntactic embedding. As Singlish grew in popularity, children began to acquire Singlish as their native language, a process known as creolization. After some time, this new pidgin language, now combined with substantial influences from Indian English, Peranakan, southern varieties of Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, became the primary language of the streets. Singlish evolved mainly among the working classes who learned elements of English without formal schooling, mixing in elements of their native languages. Elements of English quickly filtered out of schools and onto the streets, resulting in the development of a pidgin language spoken by non-native speakers as a lingua franca used for communication between speakers of the many different languages used in Singapore. ![]() Singlish originated with the arrival of the British and the establishment of English-medium education in Singapore. Singlish arose out of a situation of prolonged language contact between speakers of many different languages in Singapore, including Hokkien, Malay, Teochew, Cantonese and Tamil. Singlish (a portmanteau of Singapore and English) is an English-based creole language spoken in Singapore. ![]()
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