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Speak Mandarin Campaign, the Glossary

The Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC) is an initiative by the Government of Singapore to encourage the Chinese Singaporean population to speak Standard Mandarin Chinese, one of the four official languages of Singapore.^[1]

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1979 establishments in Singapore
Chinese languages in Singapore
Language policy in Singapore
Singapore government policies

Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Cantonese

Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.

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Cantonese opera

Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Guangdong Province.

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Cantopop

Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese.

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Chee Hong Tat

Chee Hong Tat (p; born 1973) is a Singaporean politician and former civil servant who has been serving as Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Finance since 2024.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese Singaporeans

Chinese Singaporeans are Singaporeans of Han Chinese ancestry.

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ComfortDelGro

ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited, commonly known as ComfortDelGro, is a multi-national transport group based in Singapore.

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Dubbing

Dubbing (re-recording and mixing) is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production, often in concert with sound design, in which additional or supplementary recordings (doubles) are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack.

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The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) is the governing body responsible for the administration of football in Singapore.

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Goh Keng Swee

Goh Keng Swee (6 October 1918 – 14 May 2010), born Robert Goh Keng Swee, was a Singaporean statesman and economist who served as 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1985.

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Google Play

Google Play, also known as the Google Play Store or Play Store and formerly Android Market, is a digital distribution service operated and developed by Google.

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Government of Singapore

The Government of Singapore is defined by the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore to consist of the President and the Executive.

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Hakka Chinese

Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:,; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around the world. Speak Mandarin Campaign and Hakka Chinese are Chinese languages in Singapore.

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History of China

The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.

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Hokkien

Hokkien is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Housing and Development Board

The Housing & Development Board (HDB; often referred to as the Housing Board), is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development responsible for the public housing in Singapore. Speak Mandarin Campaign and housing and Development Board are Singapore government policies.

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Identity politics

Identity politics is politics based on a particular identity, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social background, caste, and social class.

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Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965

The Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965 was a major agreement between the governments of Malaysia and Singapore on 7 August 1965 that formally expelled Singapore from Malaysia as a state and to be an independent sovereign country.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music.

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Joi Chua

Joi Chua (born 3 August 1978) is a Singaporean singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur.

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Language death

In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker.

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Languages of Singapore

The languages of Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, with the lingua franca between Singaporeans being English, the de facto main language.

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Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew; 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and lawyer who served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party from 1954 to 1992.

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Lianhe Zaobao

Nanyang Sin-Chew Lianhe Zaobao, commonly abbreviated as Lianhe Zaobao, is the largest Singaporean Chinese-language newspaper with a daily circulation of about 136,900 (print and digital) as of 2021.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.

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Linguistic competence

In linguistics, linguistic competence is the system of unconscious knowledge that one knows when they know a language.

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Mah Bow Tan

Mah Bow Tan (p; born 12 September 1948) is a Singaporean former politician who served as Leader of the House between 2007 and 2011, Minister for National Development between 1999 and 2011, Minister for the Environment between 1993 and 1995, and Minister for Communications between 1991 and 1999.

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Malays (ethnic group)

Malays (Orang Melayu, Jawi) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations.

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Mediacorp Pte.

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Minister Mentor

Minister Mentor was a position in the Cabinet of Singapore created in 2004 as part of a transition in political leadership.

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Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.

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My Paper

My Paper was a free, bilingual (English and Chinese) newspaper in Singapore published by the Singapore Press Holdings.

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Nanyang Technological University

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a public university in Singapore.

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Official language

An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.

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People's Action Party

The People's Action Party (PAP) is a major conservative political party of the centre-right in Singapore.

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Peranakan Chinese

The Peranakan Chinese are an ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Southern Chinese settlers to maritime Southeast Asia, known as Nanyang, namely the British Colonial ruled ports in the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian Archipelago, as well as Singapore.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.

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Prime Minister of Singapore

The prime minister of Singapore is the head of government of Singapore.

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The Promote Mandarin Council is a Singaporean organisation established in 1979 as part of then-PM Lee Kuan Yew's programme to promote Mandarin as the preferred language amongst Chinese Singaporeans. Speak Mandarin Campaign and promote Mandarin Council are Chinese languages in Singapore, language policy in Singapore and Singapore government policies.

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The promotion of Standard Chinese is a campaign by the government of China, with the stated goal being to facilitate easier communication throughout the country, which has historically spoken many mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinese, as well as non-Sinitic languages.

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Russification

Russification (rusifikatsiya), or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntarily or voluntarily, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian culture and the Russian language.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Singapore Premier League

The Singapore Premier League, commonly abbreviated as SPL, (officially known as the AIA Singapore Premier League for sponsorship reasons), is a men's professional football league sanctioned by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), which represents the sport's highest level in the Singapore football league system.

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Singaporean Hokkien

Singaporean Hokkien is a local variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively in Singapore. Speak Mandarin Campaign and Singaporean Hokkien are Chinese languages in Singapore.

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Singaporean Mandarin

Singaporean Mandarin is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken natively in Singapore. Speak Mandarin Campaign and Singaporean Mandarin are Chinese languages in Singapore.

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Speak Good English Movement

The Speak Good English Movement (SGEM) is a Singapore Government campaign to "encourage Singaporeans to speak grammatically correct English that is universally understood". Speak Mandarin Campaign and speak Good English Movement are language policy in Singapore and Singapore government policies.

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Sport Singapore

Sport Singapore (SportSG) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth of the Government of Singapore.

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Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949). Speak Mandarin Campaign and standard Chinese are Chinese languages in Singapore.

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Subtitles

Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media.

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Tamils

The Tamils, also known as the Tamilar, are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, to the union territory of Puducherry, and to Sri Lanka.

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Teochew Min

Teochew, also known as Teo-Swa (or Chaoshan), is a Southern Min language spoken by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world. Speak Mandarin Campaign and Teochew Min are Chinese languages in Singapore.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_Mandarin_Campaign

Also known as Hua Yu Cool! / hua yu Cool!, Speak Mandarin, .

, Subtitles, Tamils, Teochew Min, The Straits Times, TV3 (Malaysian TV network), Varieties of Chinese, Wong Kan Seng, Xinyao, 1991 Singaporean general election.

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See also

1979 establishments in Singapore

Chinese languages in Singapore

Language policy in Singapore

Singapore government policies

References