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  2. Singlish vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Singlish vocabulary. Singlish is the English-based creole or patois spoken colloquially in Singapore. English is one of Singapore's official languages, along with Malay (which is also the National Language), Mandarin, and Tamil. [1] Although English is the lexifier language, Singlish has its unique slang and syntax, which are more pronounced in ...

  3. Singlish - Wikipedia

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    Singlish (a portmanteau of Singapore and English), formally known as Colloquial Singaporean English, is an English-based creole language originating in Singapore. [1] [2] [3] Singlish arose out of a situation of prolonged language contact between speakers of many different Asian languages in Singapore, such as Malay, Cantonese, Hokkien, Mandarin, Teochew, and Tamil. [4]

  4. Singdarin - Wikipedia

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    None. Colloquial Singaporean Mandarin, commonly known as Singdarin[a] or Singnese, [b] is a Mandarin dialect native and unique to Singapore similar to its English-based counterpart Singlish. It is based on Mandarin but has a large amount of English and Malay in its vocabulary. There are also words from other Chinese languages such as Cantonese ...

  5. Languages of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    QWERTY. The languages of Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, with the lingua franca between Singaporeans being English, the de facto main language. Singaporeans often speak Singlish among themselves, an English creole arising from centuries of contact between Singapore's internationalised society and its legacy of being a British ...

  6. Henry Thia - Wikipedia

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    程旭辉. Hanyu Pinyin. Chéng Xùhuī. Wade–Giles. Ch'eng2 Hsu4 Hui1. Hokkien POJ. Thiâⁿ Hiok-hui. Henry Thia (born 25 February 1952), also known as Alamak and Hui Ge (Chinese: 辉哥; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hui-ko), is a Singaporean actor and comedian.

  7. Singaporean Mandarin - Wikipedia

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    Singaporean Mandarin. Not to be confused with Singdarin. Singaporean Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 新加坡 华语; traditional Chinese: 新加坡 華語; pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Huáyǔ) is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken natively in Singapore. Mandarin is one of the four official languages [2] of Singapore along with English, Malay and Tamil.

  8. Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore hope to lure Chinese with visa ...

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    Chinese engineer and aviation enthusiast Wei Meng is exactly the kind of visitor the tourism authorities in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are looking for. After Singapore scrapped visas for ...

  9. Singaporean Hokkien - Wikipedia

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    The scriptures contain Singapore-style Hokkien romanization are available to assist during the scriptural recitation. There are also Hokkien Buddhist sermons CDs made available and distribute among Hokkien communities in Singapore and overseas. Some of the Chinese Christian churches in Singapore also have services conducted in Singaporean Hokkien.