Imao

this ees me afte mai sheeeef

you should look up afro asiatic languages, eg. is the shanga people in africa from whom mandarin originated, first dynasty in china is the shang dynasty if am not wrong

Singaporean English lacks the tense/lax vowels and a lot of diphthongs are also merged into monothongs So like "this is me before my shift" becomes "tees ees mee beefoo maaii sheef" 1)The sharp tense "i" sounds become a lax but long "eee" 2) dental th sound becomes t 3) "my" becomes "ma-i" 4) consonant clusters (ft) breaks into just the fricative (f) 5) non-rhotic (r not pronounced in "before") 6) constant stress, also due to the lack of tense/lax vowel differentiation (tEEs EEs mEE bEEfOO mAAi shEEf) ------------ It's interesting because it's very clearly influenced by hokkien. Hokkien does not have rhoiticity (r sound) unlike mandarin, lacks retroflex sounds (cha zha ra) which tamil and mandarin have, vowels are not tense/lax differentiated so no stress either, but instead it's all tones - which is why we have a slight singsong sound, especially with the lah leh particles Another thing if you note, all the ch8 veterans, if they come over to Ch5 to act, listen out for the "forced rhoiticity" - growing up without saying the "r" trill/tap, what happens is that these performers tend to overcompensate, so you hear something like "is it this color" being said like "ees eet tees kóloRw" It's something you can notice in Singaporean Chinese, but not mainland Chinese or Singaporean malay/tamil speakers So ye.

@@Yadobler...

Exactly. He himself sounds Nigerian 😅

ok chill bro

People aren’t saying that they’re 100% carbon copies. We’re just amazed that 2 countries thousands of miles apart sound slightly SIMILAR. It’s a bit like how people say Jamaican and Irish accents sound alike aswell. There’s only so many accents to go round you’re bound to find some that sound alike

Bro chill

Bro why so angry chill leh

@@cvpiguy I’ve seen people who struggle with vision or not have English as a first language type like this. Their tone/wording doesn’t sound angry though

That convinced me that this YEOLO dude is an oblivious idiot.

its meant to make u laugh cos its a joke HAHA

LKY was born in 1923 😂

Lmao singaporean chinest r racist

​@@NazKam😂

It's most definitely a joke. Y'all are too serious on here 😅 try laughing sometimes

It is a joke! The guy doesn't even sound Nigerian 😂

Not at all

Yes he does

💀NAHH

Lol 😂

Werey 😂

Bro can you give me a tutorial on how to uninstall Accent_Nigerian.exe it seems I installed it a while ago and can’t remove it

It’s not just the British colonies. Many other African countries also have that similar accent/manner of speaking. It’s really a combination of the use of bastardised English (pidgin in Africa, singlish in Singpaore), and the pre-existing speaking characteristics

@@user-lk4jd5yc8ddk if I’m misunderstanding your comment but it sounds like pretty much what OP said but just in more detail/added context…? I’m still gathering that British influence played a part. English came from them so pidgin and singlish is a variation of mixing their home language with English, yeah? It seems like you’re just saying what they said lol

There's a lot of former British colonies in the world, so that's not the reason. As a Nigerian, I can tell you the sing songy rhythm is due to our indigenous languages being tonal. Sub-Saharan African languages are notoriously tonal, and the same is true for most Asian languages as well. I believe that's why the accents sound similar. The influence of tonal languages.

So funny!

Nigeria has a lot of accents in the same way America has a lot of accents. Existence of regional variances doesn't change the fact that they all still fall under a distinct “Nigerian accent”. Cameroon and Benin are the only countries I'd say have an identical accent to Nigerian.

​@soso694 OP didn't say otherwise. I think they were trying to be more specific so he wouldn't go around listening to igbo people speak and expecting it to sound exactly like Singaporeans

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Everybody talks about why the Nigerian accent sounds like the sgporean accent but no one talks about why the malaysian accent sounds like the sgporean accent

someone told me this when my family went to europe too

My family still has the greek accent even after generations here lok

''Aiyah'' is a Chinese expression. "Lah" is mostly Hokkien. So is ''leh", which is in Cantonese. The colloquial Chinese language attaches a lot of these codas at the end of their sentences.

or laurel and yanny (i'm team "i cant hear the similarities")

Noticed this

Honestly! And the guy doesn't even sound Nigerian 😂

I love you

It's actually really not that different. We have regional variances just like any other country, but I can always pick out a Nigerian accent no matter which part of Nigeria the person is from. They have the same overall features. It's like saying there are many American accents. Yes, but there is a “general American accent ” that all regional variances fall under.

Definitely

Fax

Our accent is just simply a mix of Chinese and Malay accents tgt when we speak eng that's why it turned that way-

Stealing what culture please explain sir

What are you even talking about

Thank you for bringing this up

Which one is "the African" accent

We almost never use the word Ketchup...I had to pause for a while to understand your brief recipe

The recepy is completely wrong