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292: 987:, English in Hong Kong remains primarily a second language, in contrast to Singapore where English has been shifting toward being a first language. The falling English proficiency of local English language teachers has come under criticism. The proportion of the Hong Kong population who report using English (that is, all forms) as their "usual spoken language" increased from 2.8% in 2006 to 4.3% in 2016, while 51.1%, 63.5% and 65.6% respectively, reported being able to speak, write and read the language. 1067:, it has been classified as in the third phase, that of Nativisation, but more recently it has been shown that many young people are happy to identify themselves as speakers of Hong Kong English, so it may be regarded as progressing into the fourth phase, that of Endonormative Stabilisation. Furthermore, by the criteria identified in the above section, scholars have noted that there is very little literature produced in English which is meant for local consumption. 2112: 2126: 1866: 1076:
compartmentalised in Hong Kong, where the two official languages are seen as having different and distinct uses. Indeed, it has been argued that even English language teachers in Hong Kong would refuse to acknowledge the local variant of English within a classroom setting, opting instead for more "standard" variations.
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As a result of the colonial legacy, the pronunciation of Hong Kong English was assumed to be originally based on British English, However, nowadays, there are new features of pronunciation derived from American English, and the influence of American English has emerged. Furthermore, there seem to be
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Hong Kong English is also featured as a separate entity in the Oxford Guide to World English, under the sub-heading of "East Asia". Hong Kong English is also included as a separate variety of English within the International Corpus of English, with a dedicated local research team collecting data to
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Many Chinese will speak a foreign language with the same characteristic monosyllabic staccato of spoken Chinese, with varying degrees of the natural liaisons between syllables that natives employ. In a similar vein, they often pronounce syllables as if words were transliterated into Cantonese:
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It has also been argued that there is no such thing as Hong Kong English and the predominance of recent works discuss Hong Kong phonology in terms of erroneous deviation from varieties such as British and American English. In one co-authored work describing a study conducted of five Hong Kong
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It has been demonstrated that English spoken in Hong Kong is highly intelligible to listeners from elsewhere, which helps explain why an increasing number of people are happy to be identified as speakers of this variety. However, it has been noted that language use is highly politicised and
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However, Hong Kong has significant American influence in its treatment of abbreviations and initialisms: the full point is expected in shortened titles (Mr., Ms., Dr., St.), and government honours also retain the full point in post-nominals
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In the literature examining the existence of Hong Kong English as a distinct variety, scholars have sought evidence of expression of the variant which may be classified according to the following criteria:
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speakers of English, it was concluded, controversially, as they conceded, that HKE was at most an emergent variety and perhaps no more than a "learner interlanguage". In the
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some innovative developments that are unique to Hong Kong English, such as a split in the realisation of /v/ as or . Some of the more salient features are listed below.
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is the seal or stamp of a corporation (it actually originates from colonial Indian English). It is now used in some other Commonwealth countries as a non-official term.
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if any contrast exists in Cantonese. This is because English voiceless consonants are most often aspirated, whereas the voiced ones are always unaspirated. The stop
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Sewell, Andrew (2017). "Pronunciation Assessment in Asia's World City: Implications of a Lingua Franca Approach in Hong Kong". In Isaacs T.; Trofimovich P. (eds.).
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In final consonant clusters, just as with many other varieties of English, there is a tendency for simplification, so the plosive at the end of words such as
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and unstressed syllables. In most varieties of English, unstressed syllables are reduced, taking less time. This difference is smaller in Hong Kong English.
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in most variants of the English language, it is usually pronounced in Hong Kong English, with the second syllable stressed instead of the first.
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spellings are in common use, although the British variant predominates in official circles, and remains the officially taught form in education.
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Hansen Edwards, J. G. (2016). "The Politics of Language and Identity: Attitudes Towards Hong Kong English pre and post the Umbrella Movement".
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materials. Major businesses routinely issue important material in both Chinese and English, and all road and government signs are bilingual.
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is only pronounced before a vowel. However, with the growing influence of American English, many young people in Hong Kong now pronounce the
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from word-final clusters has been reported to occur in about 76% of tokens, though this frequency is a little less if the function words
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The existence of Hong Kong English, as a distinct variety of the English language, is still a matter of debate among many scholars.
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Glenwright, Phil (2005). "Grammar Error Strike Hard: Language Proficiency Testing of Hong Kong Teachers and the Four 'Noes'".
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It has been argued that the lack of recognition of Hong Kong English as a variety on par with other Asian varieties, such as
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Some words and phrases widely understood in Hong Kong are rare or unheard of elsewhere. These often derive from Chinese,
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Merging voiceless/voiced consonants into voiceless if there is no contrast in aspirated/unaspirated in Cantonese. Both
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has . It seems that occurs at the start of a stressed syllable while occurs at the start of an unstressed syllable.
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Hansen Edwards, J. G. (2016). "Sociolinguistic Variation in Asian Englishes: The Case of Coronal Stop Deletion".
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Chan, J. Y. H. (2013). "Contextual Variation and Hong Kong English: Contextual Variation and Hong Kong English".
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Using these criteria, scholars have said that Hong Kong English possesses the attributes of a distinct variety.
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Kirkpatrick, A.; Deterding, D.; Wong, J. (2008). "The International Intelligibility of Hong Kong English".
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Sewell, Andrew (2009). "World Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca, and the case of Hong Kong English".
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Hung, T. N. (2007). "Innovation in Second Language Phonology". In T. Hoffmann; L. Siebers (eds.).
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Bolton, Kingsley (2000). "The Sociolinguistics of Hong Kong and the Space for Hong Kong English".
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Confusion between homographs (words with the same spelling but different meanings), e.g. the noun
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used to communicate between traders in Canton before the establishment of Hong Kong as a colony.
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Vowel reduction is often avoided in function words, so a full vowel occurs in words such as
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Like many accents in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, Hong Kong English is
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Deterding, D.; Wong, J.; Kirkpatrick, A. (2008). "The Pronunciation of Hong Kong English".
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There is alternation between and , and the same speaker may alternate with words such as
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When referring to the same thing, British vocabulary is more commonly used, for example:
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professor Lisa Lim stated that some of the words, by that year, had declined in usage.
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is a concrete or stone-lined canal or a reinforced creek bed used to contain run-off.
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Long and short vowels are generally merged, particularly involving the close vowels
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becomes (except when preceded by s, where the English consonants are unaspirated).
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Hansen Edwards, J. G. (2015). "Hong Kong English: Attitudes, Identity, and Use".
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Setter, Jane (2006). "Speech Rhythm in World Englishes: The Case of Hong Kong".
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is a cashier, in a hospital, a government office or a car park (parking garage).
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Hung, T. N. (2012). "Hong Kong English". In E. L. Low; Azirah Hashim (eds.).
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are generally pronounced with its stressed form with a lower pitch, e.g.
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In Cantonese, there is no structure of diphthong+consonant. As a result,
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Compared to other varieties of English, there is less difference between
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Second Language Pronunciation Assessment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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Bolton, Kingsley; Lim, Shirley (2000). "Futures for Hong Kong English".
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Pang, Terence T. T. (2003). "Hong Kong English: A Stillborn Variety?".
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are often reflected in the transliteration of the words; for example,
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There is often little distinction between the non-close front vowels,
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Hung, Tony T. N. (2000). "Towards a Phonology of Hong Kong English".
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is , just as in London English (Cockney). After back rounded vowels
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words are often differently stressed. For example, while the word
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A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant Harbor
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A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant Harbor
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English in Southeast Asia: Features, Policy and Language in Use
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Benson, Phil (2000). "Hong Kong Words: Variation and Context".
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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Differences or omission in ending sounds, as the ending
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as well as the first syllable of content words such as
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in the coda of a syllable is often pronounced as , and
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Exaggeration of certain final consonants, for example
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tends to be pronounced as in final closed syllables;
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are never confused, due to difficulty in pronouncing
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are both pronounced with a short tense ) as well as
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World Englishes: Problems, Properties and Prospects
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Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2427: 3170:"Why Hong Kong has 'nullahs' not drains" 3127:Cassell Giant Paperback Dictionary, 1994 2312: 2310: 2308: 2306: 2002:entered the English language from Hindi. 1796:American/British spelling and word usage 960:in Hong Kong – the other being Chinese ( 3684:Special administrative regions of China 3074:"Where does the word 'chop' come from?" 2201: 1446:vowel reduction in unstressed syllables 1065:Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes 999:Evidence suggesting variant established 882: 628: 607: 571: 545: 538: 464: 391: 338: 333: 315:question marks, boxes, or other symbols 19:For more background on this topic, see 2582: 2580: 1623:) in Cantonese with the exceptions of 3214:– via South China Morning Post. 2532:"The International Corpus of English" 2032:', direct translation of the Chinese 891:Teaching English as a second language 334:Demographics and culture of Hong Kong 7: 7473:Non-native pronunciations of English 3053:from the original on 19 October 2018 2291:from the original on 8 October 2018 1265:may be pronounced the same (with ). 3206:from the original on 3 August 2020 2279:Census and Statistics Department. 1155:may have either or at the start. 14: 2698:10.1111/j.1467-971X.2008.00573.x 2124: 2110: 1861:Hong Kong vocabulary/expressions 1489: 1454: 1341: 1087:, is due to a lack of research. 1009:Standard and recognisable accent 3384:Bao'an County and Xin'an County 3225:Lim, Lisa (11 September 2016). 2072: 2044: 1951: 1924: 1201:are excluded from the analysis. 1071:Intelligibility and recognition 7423:English-based creole languages 3679:Sino-British Joint Declaration 3516:Country parks and conservation 2088: 2081: 2063: 2009: 1942: 1915: 1519:in other varieties of English. 1: 7463:List of English-based pidgins 3202:. 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Index

Languages of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Asia
Hongkongers
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
North Sea Germanic
Anglo-Frisian
Anglic
English
International English
Asian English
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Germanic
Proto-West Germanic
Proto-English
Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
Modern English
Writing system
Latin
English alphabet
Unified English Braille
ISO 639-3
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