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Colonial Activities Influencing English Language

It is undoubtedly true that English is an Dialect leveling often
international language and it is the most occurred. As a result, pidgins and
widespread language on earth. . It is creoles developed and new varieties
spoken in many parts of the world, yet of English emerged.Different patterns of
with various degrees of differences in colonial activity and their effects on
grammar, pronunciation or vocabulary. How English
do these varieties arise? When we According to David Graddol et al., there
take a close look at the history in the were three types of
last few centuries, it is English colony, each of them having
certain that the varieties of English different effects on the
have a close relationship with development of English. In the first
the colonial activity in this period. type, exemplified by America and
Until the late sixteenth century English Australia, substantial settlement by
was not spoken anywhere first-language speakers of
outside the British Isles. The spread of English displaced the pre-colonial
English beyond the British population. In the second, typified
Isles resulted from the spread of the by Nigeria, sparser colonial settlements
English-speaking people through maintained the pre-colonial
colonial activity. population in subjection and allowed a
As English-speaking colonies were proportion of them access to
established, English came into learning English as a second, or
contact with indigenous languages of the additional, language. The third type,
pre-colonial population. Very exemplified by the Caribbean islands of
often speakers in these communities tend Barbados and Jamica. Here, a
to incorporate many pre-colonial population was replaced by
linguistic features from their first new labor from elsewhere,
language when speaking the new principally West Africa.North America
one. Besides, there was diversity in the In 1607 the first British colony was
language used by the established in Jamestown.
English-speaking settlers themselves.




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