Re: "Hindilish" & "Hinglish"

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>   I live in a Chinatown in the Bay Area, California... there are days
>when
>I hardly hear English spoken. Cantonese, Fukkien/Taiwanese, & Mandarin
>seem
>to be the major regionalects (a better term than dialect) - approximately
>in
>that order. Sometimes one may hear Hakka and other regionalects. And it is
>not too uncommon to hear other Asian languages - Malay, Bahasa Indonesia,
>Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Khymer, Japanese, even Pali & Hindi.
Speaking of this, in Daly City to the south of San Francisco, you find a
huge concentration of Filipinos. I hear it's where most went after the
Imperial Hotel (right near China Town in San Francisco) was torn down.
Berkeley has a large number of Indian and Pakistani immigrants as well (i
remember one of the streets had a store devoted to Indian fashions, and
lots of Indian Restaurants and shops there).

My town has a large number of Filipino, Vietnamese, and Korean immigrants
(In fact, there are many Korean stores, and all of the churches here have
announcements written in Korean. The Catholic church I go to has a Korean
mass every month.

(As an aside, the church bulletin has the announcement for the Chaldean
mass written in Aramaic)


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