Senkyoshigo

Senkyoshigo (Japanese: 宣教師語, lit.'missionary language') is a non-secret cant developed and spoken by Mormon missionaries serving at missions in Japan which synthesizes the native English of missionaries with aspects of Japanese.[1]: 11  Although the grammatical framework of the cant is primarily rooted in English, it synthesizes English function words with a primarily Japanese lexicon with English pronunciations of words.[2]

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  2. ^ Smout, Kary (1988). "Senkyoshigo: A Missionary English of Japan". American Speech. 63 (2): 137–149. doi:10.2307/454418. JSTOR 454418. Retrieved 10 June 2021.