ABSTRACT

Language as a code crystallizes our inherited knowledge and helps us create meaning out of our everyday experiences. The generations that opened eyes in early’90s and afterwards, have grown up now and constitute a huge portion of the vibrant and young Indian population. Language hybridity can be understood as sociolinguistic phenomenon of Code mixing that refers to “the use of one or more languages for consistent transfer of linguistic units from one language into another and by such a language mixture developing a new restricted or not restricted code of linguistic interaction” Kachru. Language hybridisation is a natural process that allows one language to renew itself in order to suit the contemporary needs. Crystal predicts that at about 350 million, the world’s Hinglish speakers may soon outnumber native English speakers.