Singapore English

Seeing lah, leh, hor, meh, ah, wah & wor comming out on the chat windows?? Wonder how all this come about??

A search on the Wikipedia show that Singlish is an English-based creole language native to Singapore. It is the first language of many younger Singaporeans, especially those whose parents do not share a native language or dialect, and is the second language of nearly all the rest of the country's residents.

The vocabulary of Singlish consists of words originating from English, Hokkien, Cantonese, Malay, and to a lesser extent various other Indic and Sinitic languages, while Singlish syntax resembles southern varieties of Chinese. Also, elements of American and Australian slang have come through from imported television series.

For those who wanna know more in-depth, can checkout the following Singlish site like Dictionary of Singlish, Ah Kow's Ingglish Dicksonairy & The Coxford Singlish Dictionary.