Hinglish

Hinglish, a portmanteau of Hindi and English, is the macaronic hybrid use of English and South Asian languages, involving code-switching between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences. While the name is based on the Hindi language, it does not refer exclusively to Hindi, but "is used in India, with English words blending with Punjabi, and Hindi, and also within British Asian families to enliven standard English."

Since the time of British Raj, there has been a history of Indic words making place in English. Raj is a Hindi word for 'rule', "British Raj" itself is an example of one of the earliest Hinglish words. Guru, yoga, ghee, pyjama and thug are a few examples. Similarly, many English loan words also came to stay in India. Time, Late, School, College, District, State etc. are example of few words which have naturalised in Indic languages, long before the word Hinglish came into being.

In recent years, due to an increase in literacy and connectivity, the interchange and mixing of languages has reached new heights, especially in social media, leading to the recognition of Hinglish. And typing Indic languages using English keyboard is also helped for increasing use of Hinglish words in social media.

Columnist Devyani Chaubal was the first author to use Hinglish in her work. Author Shobhaa De then began to use Hinglish elements in her books and columns in the Indian magazine Stardust. Other authors who have used Hinglish extensively in their novels are Salman Rushdie and Upamanyu Chatterjee.

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