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Dialect comparison

Geordie vs Singlish

Compare two dialects of English side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.

Geordie

Tyneside English

The dialect of Newcastle and the Tyneside region. Retains a number of Old English and Norse-derived features lost elsewhere in England.

Approximate centre
54.98°, -1.61°
Singlish

Singapore Colloquial English

The colloquial English of Singapore, mixing English with grammatical features and lexicon drawn from Hokkien, Malay, Cantonese, and Tamil.

Spoken in
Approximate centre
1.35°, 103.82°

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