Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg, language: English, abstract: This essay deals with the influence British invaders had on the language spoken in Malaysia and carefully scrutinizes the phonology of Malaysian English, which is compared to RP and shows differences in vowel- and consonant production and in suprasegmental and phonotactic features.