>>11080123>the rest of the cunts speak MandarinWay to demonstrate that you don't know what you're talking about. What you call "the rest" represent more than 75% of the citizen population. Malays are only 15%.
Malay is only "the national language" for ceremonial purposes. It's only spoken at home by less than 10% of the population. Most younger Singaporean Malays aren't even fluent these days.
Since the 1980s, English has been the primary language of instruction in the schools, with the other official languages taught as secondary languages according to a policy of bilingualism. English is also the predominant language of print journalism and broadcasting.
The Chinese are taught Mandarin in school, in addition to English, but fewer than a third of them speak it at home. Historically, almost none of them did, as they used other dialects natively, primarily Hokkien. Mandarin was used in the Chinese schools analogously to Latin in the West in past centuries, but many Chinese went to English schools and never learned Mandarin at all. In recent decades, Mandarin has displaced the other dialects of Chinese, but has itself been steadily losing ground to English. The latest census data (2020) showed that English had surpassed Mandarin as a primary language.
Bazaar Malay once served as a lingua franca, but its use has been declining since the colonial era and has few speakers in Singapore today. With the use of Hokkien declining even among the Chinese, and with the non-Chinese population not being taught Mandarin, English has become the lingua franca and is fast becoming the native language of younger Singaporeans. English is now spoken by roughly half of Singaporeans as their primary language, while every other language is in decline.
I actually have a friend who is Chinese Singaporean, so I know what I'm talking about.
