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Indian English en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A major dialect of the English language, spoken in many varieties in India and by people from India.
   • Much more common was the bureaucratic use of Indian English. Below the level of the most highly educated, whose English was invariably modelled on old-fashioned teaching, were the English-using clerks of the Imperial administration. 1986, McCrum, Robert, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., page 329:
2. (countable, uncountable) One of the specific varieties of Indian English.
   • The Indian Englishes range from very basic English to what might be considered a standard educated Indian English. 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 294:

Forms

Synonyms

IndE · IE

Translations (9)

he אנגלית הודית (Indian dialect of English) · kn ಭಾರತೀಯ ಆಂಗ್ಲ ಭಾಷೆ (Indian dialect of English) · mr भारतीय इंग्रजी (Indian dialect of English) · pt inglês indiano (Indian dialect of English) · ja インド英語 (Indian dialect of English) · fi intianenglanti (Indian dialect of English) · de indisches Englisch (Indisches Englisch n) (Indian dialect of English) · bn ভারতীয় ইংরেজী (Indian dialect of English) · pl dialekt indyjski języka angielskiego (Indian dialect of English)