Analyzing the Linguistic Components of Pakistani English: An Indigenized Legitimate English Variety

Abstract

This study tries to present a local variety of English that is used in Pakistan and is known as Pakistani English or ‘Pinglish’. It is recognized an official language in Pakistan. The paper briefly highlights its history; sources of its emergence, its various altered forms, underlying socio-cultural and religious effects that have an influence. It is to analyze the indigenized peculiarities by observing different phonetic components, sentence structure, morphology, lexis and phonology. Previous contributions on the advancement of this variety have acknowledged its legitimacy to a great extent. The study presents an influence of first language onto the pronunciation of the second language. In short, it examines that Urdu nouns and other group of vocabulary items within Pakistani variety of English are utilized intentionally and with determination, where its speakers have their own Urdu words present as substitutes.