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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.
Statue of Stamford Raffles, the first British governor of Singapore. This is a timeline of Singaporean history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Singapore and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Singapore. See also the list of years in Singapore
English: Vowel diagram for free vowels in Singapore English, based on descriptions by Deterding (2007, 2010) and Lim (2004). In this diagram, [ɔː] represents an allophonic realisation of /ɒ/ in open syllables (e.g., in the word "more").
Between 2 Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from 1275 to 1971 (2nd ed. Marshall Cavendish International Asia, 2011). Ong, Siang Song. One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore (Oxford University Press--Singapore, 1984) online. Perry, John Curtis. Singapore: Unlikely Power (Oxford University Press, 2017). Tan, Kenneth Paul (2007).
Category: History of Singapore by topic. 9 languages. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects
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View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of years in Singapore. See also Timeline of ...