JAPANGLISH PRONUNCIATION IN MUSIC VIDEO
"TOKYO BON" BY NAMEWEE FEATURING MEU NINOMIYA
English is used as an international language, but some nations such as Japan used
different alphabets to construct the words in their language. Japanese have three types of
characters, but they used Katakana to write English words. Due to the inflexibility of Katakana
characters, the Japanese pronunciation of English words has become a phenomenon called
“Japanglish.” The theory used in this sudy is BIA+ proposed by Dijkstra and Van Heuven
(1998). This study focus to find the mispronounced part in Japanglish and the pattern that
emerges when Japanglish is used in the lyrics of the song. The data of this study were the lyrics
in Japanglish from a video with the title “Tokyo Bon” by Namewee ft. Meu Ninomiya. This
study used a qualitative method and documentation as a data collection technique. The results
of this study were the findings of the mispronounced positions in Japanglish and the patterns in
pronouncing Japanglish such as the substitutions of the consonants and vowels, the majority of
words ending with vowels, and shortening the words for more straightforward pronunciation.