Malay lexical borrowings in Singapore colloquial English

Singapore English evolved as a contact variety with English as its superstrate and the local languages, namely Chinese, Malay and Tamil as its substrate languages. It is expected, therefore, that Singapore English would contain features borrowed from these substrate languages. In this paper, we inv...

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Main Authors: Sri Norazrin Buang, Nurulhuda Abdul Halim, Shamala Ramakresinin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 2017-07-01
Series:Journal of Modern Languages
Online Access:https://samudera.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3696
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