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Runglish
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English
Etymology
en Russian English.
Proper noun
en informal Any mixture of the Russian and English languages.
en 2018 James Lambert A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity English World-Wide 6 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318367113_A_multitude_of_lishes_The_nomenclature_of_hybridity Don’t bother defining Runglish, simply let its rising bilingual tides of English-flavored Russian and Russian-flavored English wash over your eardrums – as thousands of speakers in a dozen societies already do. (Moscow News 11 Sept 2013) https://web.archive.org/web/20260210120000/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318367113_A_multitude_of_lishes_The_nomenclature_of_hybridity 10 February 2026
en informal An informal romanization of Russian, usually following English spelling rules.
Synonyms
en Ruglish
en Russlish
Translations
Runglish
Russian: ru рунгли́йский язы́к m, ru ра́нглиш m, ru ру́нглиш m
See also
en Nadsat the Russian-influenced argot used by the teenage protagonists in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Anagrams
en ghilnrsu hurlings