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Anglo-Indian English
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English
Pronunciation
en ɪŋɡlɪʃ 7
Noun
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The variety of English used in South Asia during the colonial era, having as a feature numerous borrowings from Hindustani and other local languages.
en 2018 James Lambert Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles World Englishes 37 255 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.