Requestors shall inform SADeaf on the preferred sign system and/or spoken language (s) used by the Deaf and/or Hearing clients (s) where possible. Services will be charged at 1.5 times the listed rates for service hours rendered between 12 midnight and 7am. Late bookings: $30 Levy Charge (for requests made within 3 working days before the date
Singapore has four official languages: English, Standard Malay, Tamil, and Mandarin Chinese. Generally, English is used as the lingua franca between Singaporeans of different races. English has a history of use in the country after being used as Singapore’s administrative language when it was a UK colony over sixty years ago.
This paper examines the status of Tamil language in the family domain in Singapore. Chew (1999, cited in Rubdy, 2005), argued that the early spread of the English language in Singapore resulted from deliberate policy decisions, even though it meant the loss of ethnic identity. Singapore was not ambivalent about continued use of English in
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