Singaporean English (Singlish) Explained

What exactly is Singlish?

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[samtan]

When overseas the moment we hear Singlish we know you are made in Singapore or at least had educated, work or live in Singapore.

[PokeTwilight]

Technically Singlish is more of a creole language than just Singapore English. Singapore English is the one we are using when communicating with non-Singaporeans.

[AJ]

In American, we just say "bring an umbrella, it's gonna rain"

[sprinkleofficial]

Why am I still watching this when I'm a Singaporean and I understand all of them.

[tonyng]

Singlish is very funny, shouldn't be abandoned

[dubu]

I love hearing my friends from Singapore rant. Singlish is a fun dialect.

[CutieRingoJoy]

You explained well, when I try to explain to non Singaporean I have problem trying to explain we don't speak English accent even tho we speak English

[krispytteobokki]

My english is my best subject, but outside of class I always speak singlish

[wilsernong]

Isn't "lah" present in Malay too? It also functions as a grammatical particle(word or part of a word that has a grammatical purpose but often has little or no meaning)
Example:
- janganlah ("lah" added to "jangan" as in "Janganlah angkat meja itu" or "Please don't lift that table"

Hence in Manglish, we have two ways of paraphrasing this:
-Don't lah lift(carry) the table
-Don't lift(carry) the table lah

I understand that the first Manglish example doesn't really appear in Singlish, and is quite rarely heard in Malaysia as well, but it still pops up sometimes.

Other examples of when "lah" is used in Malay that I know : pergilah(pergilah jauh dari sini),
terimalah(terimalah hadiahku), itulah(itulah pokok yang saya sebut tadi)

"Lah" in Malay is considered a "kata penegas". I'm not sure it's called in English but basically what it does is that it "stresses" a particular word in a sentence.

[lyc]

At 0:56, CMI (Cannot Make It) hahahahahahhahahahahah

[kiwichuu]

Taught my friend who's overseas Singlish now she use it 😂 but all the lah leh sial cb knn & etc all wrong places for her HAHAH

[bambinazo]

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[HamNCheeseSandwich]

It's a mix of Tamil, Chinese and Malay or a bit of some dialects like Cantonese and many more

[khunpingpong]

not only the words that unique, but the accent and intonation sound like a mix of Chinese and India.

[nuel_mene]

If you want to have Singaporean accent, talk like a Nigerian. The similarities are shocking.

[connorpratt]

1:26 I think there’s a lot shorter ways people would actually say this that are way more likely

[AyinMaiden]

1:38 "Lah" is widely used in Malay as well. I've always thought that is where the expression came from, since Singapore was previously a part of Malaysia.

[the_hanburger]

I'm Malaysia and it's I people speak as if we only use 10 or 20% of singlish.

The rest is the normal language.

[vladimir-uzdq]

0:56 The remaining population besides the English educated, are Chinese Malays and Indians, abbreviated as CMI (cannot make it) 🤣😂🤣

[Embur]

Honestly, Singlish seems pretty cool. The use of filler words and shortening of regular English reminds me of our Yorkshire dialect up in northern England