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Sigma KEE - YinglishLanguage
YinglishLanguage(yinglish language)

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(documentation YinglishLanguage EnglishLanguage "The YinglishLanguage is an EnglishGroupLanguage of the UnitedStates. SIL code: YIB. ISO 639-2: gem. Population: No estimate available. Region: Also spoken in the United Kingdom. Alternate names: AMERIDISH. Comments: Bilingualism in English. Professor Joshua A. Fishman says, ''Yinglish' is a variety of English influenced by Yiddish (lexically, particularly, but also grammatically and phonetically). Any good English dictionary will now include 50-100 or more 'borrowings from Yiddish' (=Yinglish)... These forms are now used not only by Jews but by others, inversely proportionally to their distance from NYC. In the case of non-Jews the original Yiddish meaning may no longer be known and a related metaphoric or contextual meaning is intended...Since the variety is only used...by speakers who can always speak 'proper English'. Yinglish is never a mother tongue acquired by the usual process of intergenerational transmission. French, Spanish, and Russian counterparts (also a Hebrew counterpart) also exist, but are more restricted in nature, both in size as well as in availability to non-Jews.' Jewish. Second language only. Also spoken in: United Kingdom. (Language name: YINGLISH.) Comments: Bilingualism in English. Professor Joshua A. Fishman says, ''Yinglish' is a variety of English influenced by Yiddish (lexically, particularly, but also grammatically and phonetically). Any good English dictionary will now include 50-100 (or more) 'borrowings from Yiddish' (=Yinglish)....Since the variety is only used...(by speakers who can always speak 'proper English') Yinglish is never a mother tongue acquired by the usual process of intergenerational transmission. French, Spanish, and Russian counterparts (also a Hebrew counterpart) also exist(s), but are more restricted in nature, both in size as well as in availability to non-Jews.' Jewish. Second language only.(extract from http:/ / www.ethnologue.com/ )") Languages.kif 7626-7651
(instance YinglishLanguage EnglishGroupLanguage) Languages.kif 7625-7625 Yinglish language is an instance of english group language

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(termFormat ChineseLanguage YinglishLanguage "yinglish 语") domainEnglishFormat.kif 63883-63883
(termFormat ChineseTraditionalLanguage YinglishLanguage "yinglish 語") domainEnglishFormat.kif 63882-63882
(termFormat EnglishLanguage YinglishLanguage "yinglish language") domainEnglishFormat.kif 63881-63881


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