Palabra Mi Amor - A French song that’s mostly English and Spanish!

video imagePlay video
The French band Shaka Ponk is known for their multilingual lyrics, as they code switch in Spanish, French, English, and Esperanto. This song is semi-exceptional as they use more French than in their other songs. (For a song with Esperanto, listen to Eh La Mala Lama Laico). They use a non standard variety of English while singing (copula deletion), and you can also see adoption of English loanwords into their French vernacular.

Posted by Michaella Joseph on September 27, 2018

Tags:
Code-switching;
Borrowing;
Multilingualism;
Slang;
Copula Absence

+ Show more artifacts