Chii chinonzi Singlish?
Singlish (muunganidzwa weSingapore neChirungu) (zviri pamutemo zvakafanana uye zvine hukama neSingaporean Chirungu) mutauro weChirungu-based creole unotaurwa muSingapore. Singlish yakabuda mumamiriro ezvinhu ekurukurirano yemitauro yakareba pakati pevatauri vemitauro yakasiyana-siyana muSingapore, kusanganisira Hokkien, Malay, Teochew, Cantonese neTamil.  Singlish yakavamba nokusvika kwevaBritain uye kugadzwa kwedzidzo yeChirungu muSingapore. Zvinhu zvechiNgezi zvakakurumidza kubuda muzvikoro uye mumigwagwa, zvichikonzera kukura kwemutauro wepidgin unotaurwa nevaya vasiri vatauri vemutauro wacho semutauro unoshandiswa pakukurukurirana pakati pevatauri vemitauro yakasiyana-siyana inoshandiswa muSingapore. Singlish yakatanga zvikurukuru pakati pemapoka evashandi avo vakadzidza zvinhu zvechiNgezi vasina kuenda kuchikoro chakarongwa, vachibatanidza zvinhu zvemitauro yavo yomunzvimbomo. Pashure penguva yakati, uyu mutauro mutsva wepidgin, zvino wakasanganiswa nepesvedzero huru inobva muchiNgezi cheIndia, Peranakan, marudzi okumaodzanyemba echiChinese, chiMalay, uye chiTamil, wakava mutauro mukuru wemigwagwa. Sezvo Singlish yakakura mukuzivikanwa, vana vakavamba kuwana Singlish somutauro wavo womuzvarirwo, muitiro unozivikanwa se creolization. Kupfurikidza neiyi nhevedzano yokugadzirwa, Singlish yakava mutauro wakaumbwa zvizere, wakadzikama uye wakazvimirira, kuwana mashoko akasimba zvikuru uye girama rakaoma zvikuru, nefonology yakatarwa, syntax, morphology, uye syntactic embedding.  Singlish ine zvakawanda zvakafanana nemutauro weManglish kana kuti Bazaar Malay yokuMalaysia, kunyange zvazvo misiyano mishomanana ingaitwa, zvikurukuru mumashoko. Manglish kazhinji kazhinji inowana pesvedzero yakawanda yechiMalay uye Singlish yakawanda yechiChinese (Mandarin, Hokkien, nezvimwewo). Pakutanga, Singlish neManglish dzaive mutauro mumwechete unobva kuhupfumi hweBritish Malaya, hwakazvarwa mumatoko ekutengeserana eSingapore, Malacca nePenang apo Singapore nePeninsular Malaysia zvaive nezvakawanda zvinangwa de facto (kubva 1963 kusvika 1965, de jure) chinhu chimwe chete. Kubvira pakaparadzana nyika mbiri idzi, pane musiyano uripo.  Kungofanana nemitauro yose, Singlish nemimwe mitauro yechiCreole inoratidza kunzwisisa kwemitemo uye magiramufomu. Nemhaka yematangiro aro, Singlish ine zvakawanda zvakafanana nemimwe mitauro yechiCreole inobva muChirungu. Kufanana nemimwe mitauro yakawanda yechiCreole, pane dzimwe nguva inorangarirwa zvisiri izvo kuti chimiro "chakaputsika" chemutauro welexicfier - muchiitiko ichi, Chirungu. Kunaka kweSinglish kwakadzidzwa nenyanzvi dzomutauro dzinopfuura Singapore.