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Manglish is an informal form of Malaysian English with features of an English-based creole principally used in Malaysia. It is heavily influenced by the main languages of the country, Malay, Chinese languages, and Tamil. It is not one of the official languages spoken in Malaysia. Manglish spoken in West Malaysia is very similar to and highly mutually intelligible with Singlish, a creole of similar roots. There is little distinction between the two creoles except that Manglish vocabulary contains more Malay words while Singlish contains more words of Hokkien (Min Nan) and Teochew origin. The vocabulary of Manglish consists of words originating from English, Malay, Hokkien, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tamil, and, to a lesser extent, various other European languages and Arabic, while Manglish syntax resembles southern varieties of Chinese. Also, elements of American and Australian slang have come through from imported television series.[1] The Malaysian Manglish is sometimes known as Rojak or Ba

Manglish - Wikipedia Manglish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Creole language in Malaysia Not to be confused with Malaysian English . This article is about the creole language in Malaysia. For the code-switching between Maltese and English, see Maltenglish . For the 2014 Malayalam film, see Manglish (film) . For the code-switching between Malayalam and English, see Malayalam-English . This article needs more citations . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . Find sourc

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