Anglo-Indian English
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɪŋɡlɪʃ
Noun
[edit]Anglo-Indian English (uncountable)
- The variety of English used in South Asia during the colonial era, having as a feature numerous borrowings from Hindustani and other local languages.
- 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255:
- To suggest that the term could have come from Anglo-Indian English into British thieves' cant and Chinese Pidgin English while also becoming widely dispersed into British dialect use would be to beg the question.