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The languages of East Asia belong to several distinct language families, with many common features attributed to interaction. In the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area , Chinese varieties and languages of southeast Asia share many areal features , tending to be analytic languages with similar syllable and tone structure.
Stanley Starosta's (2005) [16] East Asian proposal includes a "Yangzian" branch, consisting of Austroasiatic and Hmong–Mien, to form an East Asian superphylum. However, Starosta believes his proposed Yangzian to be a direct sister of Sino-Tibetan rather than Austronesian, which is more distantly related to Sino-Tibetan as a sister of Sino ...
Previously known as the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the organisation was renamed as ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute on 12 August 2015, in honour of Singapore's first President, Yusof Ishak. [2] The institute celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018, with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivering a lecture [3] on 13 March that year.
Southeast Asian English is the English spoken in Southeast Asia, namely Singapore English (similar and related to British English), Malaysian English (similar and related to British English), Brunei English (similar and related to British English), Philippine English (similar and related to American English), Tinglish, Myanmar English (similar and related to British English) and Australian ...
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]
Since 2008, Indonesian and Arabic have been offered as part of the Asian Languages programme, bringing the number of Third Languages offered by MOE from the original 5 to 7. The aim of the two new Third Languages is to facilitate future Singaporean engagement with Indonesia and to open up bridges into the Middle East, the latter being one of ...
The East Asia Institute is an autonomous research institute and think tank of the National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore. It may also refer to one of several research institutes, think tanks, and academic institutes: East Asia Institute (Korea) (founded in 2002), an independent think tank in Seoul, South Korea.
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.