Penglish
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Penglish
- (informal) A language that combines Persian and English.
- 2007, Mehdi Semati, Media, Culture and Society in Iran:
- Gradually, however, English, Penglish (a hybrid of Persian and English), and other host country languages have become accepted, as filmmakers and audiences have evolved and set down roots abroad.
- 2011, Hamid Naficy, A Social History of Iranian Cinema, volume 2, page 318:
- Finally, these displaced toughs' adoption of the Iranian exiles' lingo, Penglish (a mixture of Persian and English), which they further mingled with their own argot, produced a rich, hybridized, and humorous language that required a knowing audience to decode and fully appreciate.
- 2015, Fariba Adelkhah, The Thousand and One Borders of Iran: Travel and Identity:
- We laugh in Persian, and this is always the language for jokes, which sometimes causes difficulties for American girlfriends. But if we take a closer look, things are more complicated, as diglossia – Penglish or Fenglish – is spreading […]