jafaican

Английский Язык - Английский Язык

Определение jafaican в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

Multicultural London English

In terms of its characteristics, MLE is anchored to a large extent in Jamaican Creole, throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s a competitor to Cockney. But Kerswill et al report that it has now encompassed and synthesized elements of everything from Cockney and African English to Hindi, Bangladeshi languages and Arabic. For this reasons it is sometimes called, erroneously, “Hinglish” or “Jafaican”.

Синонимы

hinglish

Этимология

() Blend of Jamaican and fake: jəmāʹkən + fāk = jəfāʹkən.