An Overview of Hong Kong English

The discussion of HKE's(Hong Kong English) origin, linguistic features, language planning policies and status aims topresent a general overview of HKE. Through literature reviewing, it is found that HKE has simpler vowel system and smaller num-ber of vowel contrasts, all fricatives are voiceless for most HKE speakers, HKE speaker like to simplify the final consonant clustersor omit the final consonant, the subject of a relative clause is usually missing in the‘zero'-subject relatives, code-mixing, code-switching and the direct translation(from Cantonese into English or the directive translation of the sound of load-words) are popu-lar in HKE speakers' speech, and HKE enjoys the status of second language in Hong Kong, etc.