High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Manglish refers to the colloquial form of Malaysian English, a very common spoken form of English in a casual or informal setting in Malaysia. It is essentially an English-based creole, with vocabulary and grammar influenced by other languages spoken in Malaysia - Malay, Hokkien, Mandarin, Cantonese and Tamil. The use of Manglish is discouraged at schools, where only Malaysian Standard English is taught.