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Pakistani English

Pakistani English noun: a dialect of the English language, having one variety in Pakistan, and also spoken by Pakistani expatriates, Pakistani migrants, and Pakistani tourists throughout the world.

Noun

Pakistani English (uncountable)

  1. A dialect of the English language, having one variety in Pakistan, and also spoken by Pakistani expatriates, Pakistani migrants, and Pakistani tourists throughout the world.
    • Much more common was the bureaucratic use of Pakistani 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, Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., page 329

Questions about Pakistani English

What does Pakistani English mean?
Pakistani English means a dialect of the English language, having one variety in Pakistan, and also spoken by Pakistani expatriates, Pakistani migrants, and Pakistani tourists throughout the world.
What part of speech is Pakistani English?
Pakistani English is a noun.

Words near Pakistani English in the dictionary

  1. pakis
  2. Pakistan
  3. Pakistanee
  4. Pakistanees
  5. Pakistani
  6. Pakistani English
  7. Pakistani Gypsy
  8. Pakistaniness
  9. Pakistanis
  10. Pakistanphobia
  11. pakka

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pakistani English (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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