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The languages of Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, with the lingua franca between Singaporeans being English, the de facto main language. Among themselves, Singaporeans often speak Singlish, an English creole arising from centuries of contact between Singapore's internationalised society and its legacy of being a British colony.
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Just like any languages in Singapore, Singaporean Mandarin is subjected to influences from other languages spoken in Singapore. Singaporean Hokkien is the largest non-Mandarin Chinese variety spoken in Singapore. The natural tendency of Hokkien-speakers to use the Hokkien way to speak Mandarin has influenced to a large degree the colloquial ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Singapore: 24 7 31 0.44 6,105,380 226,125 15,200
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Tamil is the most spoken Indian language in Singapore and the only Indian language among Singapore's four official languages, alongside Mandarin, Malay and English, [3] and 3.1% of Singapore residents speak Tamil at home. [4] Singapore is one of the three countries in the world to make Tamil an official language, the others being India and Sri ...
While the term "mother tongue" in general refers to the first language internationally, in Singapore's education system, it is used to refer to the second language, as English is the first language. [ 447 ] [ 448 ] Students who have been abroad for a while, or who struggle with their "Mother Tongue" language, are allowed to take a simpler ...
Singapore English (SgE, SE, en-SG) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Singapore.In Singapore, English is spoken in two main forms: Singaporean Standard English, which is indistinguishable grammatically from British English, and Singaporean Colloquial English, which is better known as Singlish.