Examples
Language transfer produces distinctive forms of learner English, depending on the speaker's first language. Some examples, labeled with a blend of the names of the two languages in question, are:
- Chinglish (Chinese)
- Czenglish (Czech)
- Denglisch (German)
- Dunglish (Dutch)
- Engrish or "Japlish" (Japanese)
- Finglish (Finnish)
- Franglais (French)
- Greeklish (Greek)
- Hinglish (Hindi)
- Konglish (Korean)
- Manglish (Malaysian)
- Poglish (Polish)
- Porglish (Portuguese)
- Runglish (Russian)
- Serblish (Serbian)
- Spanglish (Spanish)
- Swenglish (Swedish)
- Taglish (Tagalog)
- Tanglish (Tamil)
- Tinglish (Thai)
- Turklish (Turkish)
- Yinglish (Yiddish)
Similar interference effects, of course, also involve languages other than English, such as French, and Spanish (Frespañol), Portuguese, and Spanish (Portuñol) or Catalan and Spanish (Catanyol).
These examples could be multiplied endlessly to reflect the linguistic interactions of speakers of the thousands of existing or extinct languages.
Such interfered-language names are often also used informally to denote instances of code-switching, code-mixing, or borrowing (using loan words).
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