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2. 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 ...

3. Standard Singaporean Mandarin - Wikipedia

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   Standard Singaporean Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 新加坡标准华语; traditional Chinese: 新加坡標準華語; pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Biāozhǔn Huáyǔ) is the standard form of Singaporean Mandarin. [1] It is used in all official Chinese media, including all television programs on Channel 8 and Channel U, various radio stations, as well as ...

4. Singaporean Mandarin - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. 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 ...

6. Chinese language romanisation in Singapore - Wikipedia

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   A large majority of Chinese people in Singapore are Hokkien ( Min Nan speakers), and a lesser number Teochew. Hokkien and Teochew share many phonemes to the point that they are mutually intelligible. Thus the romanisations are similar and surnames such as Tan (traditional Chinese: 陳; simplified Chinese: 陈; pinyin: Chén ), Chua (Chinese ...

7. Pinyin - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. Hanyu (汉语; 漢語) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'. Pinyin is the official system used ...

8. Speak Mandarin Campaign - Wikipedia

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   Speak Mandarin Campaign. The Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC; Chinese: 講華語運動; pinyin: Jiǎng Huáyǔ Yùndòng) is an initiative by the Government of Singapore to encourage the Chinese Singaporean population to speak Standard Mandarin Chinese, one of the four official languages of Singapore. Launched on 7 September 1979 by then Prime ...

9. Channel 8 (Singaporean TV channel) - Wikipedia

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   Channel 8 (Chinese: 8頻道) is a Singaporean Mandarin -language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp. The channel broadcasts general entertainment and news programming in the Mandarin language, including original and imported programming. The channel began a series of experimental ...