Pakistani English: Deviant pronunciation of English words by uneducated native Punjabi speakers

Punjabi is spoken as a mother tongue by a vast majority of people in Pakistan. English being the language of media, science and technology has strong impact on the native languages in Pakistan because code-mixing is a common phenomenon and even uneducated people employ words of English language due to multiple reasons such as the influence of media or class-consciousness. The regional languages also influence English in this process of borrowing and code-mixing because the borrowed words go through a make-up caused by the phonetic features of the regional languages. The study explores the ways in which the pronunciation of certain English words uttered by uneducated native Punjabi speakers in Pakistan differs from Standard English pronunciation. 195 borrowed English words have been suggested along with the transcription of deviant as well as British and North American pronunciation. It can clearly be observed that uneducated native Punjabi speakers pronounce these words in a significantly different manner due to the first language influence