Japlish

[ jap-lish ]

noun

1. Japanese spoken or written with a large admixture of English words and expressions.
2. English spoken or written with features characteristic of Japanese.

Japlish

/ ˈdʒæplɪʃ /

noun

1. the adoption and adaptation of English words into the Japanese language Also calledJapanglish

Word History and Origins

Origin of Japlish¹

First recorded in 1955–1960; Jap(anese) + (Eng)lish

Word History and Origins

Origin of Japlish¹

C20: from a blend of Japanese + English

Example Sentences

And as English has become a kind of lingua franca, all of us are fluent in Franglais and in Japlish.

From Time Magazine Archive

Foreign languages do not simply acquire American terms, of course, but adapt and rework them in a sort of hybridization variously known as Franglais, Spanglish or Japlish.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ads aimed at Westerners living in Japan are written in "Japlish"�a stilted Japanese version of English.

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Japanese sometimes sounds like Japlish: masukomi for mass communications, terebi for TV, demo for demonstration and the inevitable baseballisms pray bollu, storiku and hitto.

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