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Swinglish (or svengelska in Swedish) is a colloquial term meaning either: Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...

• English spoken with a heavy Swedish accent or heavily influenced by Swedish vocabulary, grammar, or syntax.
• Swedish with many English words.

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English heavily influenced by Swedish

English influenced by Swedish pronunciation

Unlike English, Swedish has monophthong vowels. This difference is sometimes disregarded by Swedish speakers, resulting in mispronunciation. Swedish also lacks some common English phonemes, such as [θ] (voiceless interdental fricative), [ð] (voiced interdental fricative) and [z] (voiced alveolar fricative). In general, written Swedish corresponds to the pronunciation more closely than in English. This too can lead to mispronunciation and incorrectly stressed words. A monophthong (in Greek μονόφθογγος = single note) is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation; compare diphthong. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... In spoken language, a phoneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words (i. ... The voiceless dental fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced dental fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The voiced alveolar fricatives are consonantal sounds. ... Look up pronunciation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In linguistics, stress is the emphasis given to some syllables (often no more than one in each word, but in many languages, long words have a secondary stress a few syllables away from the primary stress, as in the words cóunterfòil or còunterintélligence. ...

English influenced by Swedish vocabulary or grammar

Literal translation of Swedish expressions and idioms are sometimes used by mistake or in belief that they are correct English. Also, several Swedish words have false friends in English. When trying to find a suitable English counterpart to a Swedish word, it is tempting to "translate" the word by simply using the Swedish word in hope that the English counterpart is similar. However, the anglicized Swedish word may mean something completely different. Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An idiom is an expression (i. ... Look up False friend in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

There are several Swedish-English false friends that can, unintentionally, take on an obscene meaning when used in English. Compare the list of Swedish-English false friends on Swedish Wikipedia. False friends are pairs of words in two languages or letters in two alphabets that look or sound similar but differ in meaning. ...

Swedish with English words

The second meaning of the term Swenglish occurs mostly in sports, computing, and business where Swedish lacks words for many concepts, like the word serve in tennis. It also occurs when a word is to be "modernized", shortened or otherwise updated, like outsource in business (older Swedish expression would be lägga ut (på entreprenad)). English has a high status in the business world in Sweden, and English words might "sound better". Other examples of this practice include mejl/mail instead of e-post (English: e-mail), printa instead of skriva ut (English: to print). Other examples include: briefa (to brief someone), sava/sejva (originating from save) and levla (raising a level in video games), maila/mejla (to e-mail someone) where the ending -a, which is the common ending of a Swedish verb, has been added. Such slips easily happen when working with English software. English words may be imported with or without adjustments. For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Printing is an industrial process for reproducing copies of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...

In several fields, English literature and magazines are used for education, and are the main source of news, since Swedish literature is not widely available. English words thus have a way of being used by Swedes even when there is a Swedish alternative. This should not be confused with the (normal) use of loanwords. The term Swenglish normally refers to the overuse of English loanwords. A loanword (or loan word) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. ...

See also

• Non-native pronunciations of English
• Chinglish
• Czenglish
• Denglisch
• Dunglish
• Engrish
• Euro-English
• Finglish
• Franglais
• Globish
• International English
• Runglish
• Siculish
• Spanglish

Non-native pronunciations of English result from the common linguistic phenomenon in which non-native users of any language tend to carry the intonation, phonological processes, and pronunciation rules from their mother tongue into their English speech. ... An example of written chinglish on a signpost. ... Czenglish, a portmanteau of the words Czech and English, is any poor or broken English spoken by native Czech speakers. ... Denglisch, sometimes spelled Denglish, is a portmanteau of the words Deutsch and English. ... Dunglish is a portmanteau of Dutch and English, a name for Dutch English, the Dutch speakers version of the English language. ... An example of Engrish on clothing. ... Euro-English (also Euroenglish or Euro-Englisch) terms are English translations of European concepts that are not native to English-speaking countries. ... The term Finglish was introduced by professor Martti Nisonen in 1920s in Hancock, Michigan to describe a linguistic phenomenon he encountered in America. ... Franglais (slang), a portmanteau combining the words français (French) and anglais (English), also called Frenglish, is a slang term for types of speech, although the word has different overtones in French and English. ... Globish is a portmanteau neologism of the words Global and English. ... International English is the concept of the English language as a global means of communication in numerous dialects, and the movement towards an international standard for the language. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Siculish is the Sicilianization of American words and phrases by immigrants from Sicily to the United States in the early 20th Century, usually for humorous effect, or out of necessity. ... It has been suggested that Hispanicisms_in_English be merged into this article or section. ...

External links

• TT-språket - A page with Swenglish words and writing tips (in Swedish)
• Test Your Swenglish
• Avigsidan - A site with funny language mistakes, including Swenglish (in Swedish)
• The Swedish Centre for Terminology - Technical and computer-related words translated to Swedish (Swedish site but has a link to other languages as well)