Vinish
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Vinish, also known as Vietlish, Vietglish or Vietnamese English is a mixed language of Vietnamese and English, often found in immigrant communities in majority-English-speaking countries. Some Vinish words, themselves corruptions of English, with English translation and comments in parentheses:
- rađiô
- radio; used more often than truyền thanh
- tivi
- TV; used more often than truyền hinh
- xì căng đan
- scandal; used or even known more often then "sự xúc phạm"
- xe tăng
- tank
Most of these words are simply words from English, recasted into the Vietnamese alphabet phonetically. This "language" is comparable to Spanglish, in which speakers may mix whole phrases of a second language into their speech.
