Re: terminal dialect?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 1, 1999, 8:50 |
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Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> There's already one Anglic language that by rights should be regarded
> as quite distinct - Indian English.
Right, there's a lot of those, but it's a different phenomenon from
UK/American/Canadian/Australian English. Those are long-established
dialects that are the majority, while in places like India, English is a
minority language, frequently new, which is heavily influenced by other
languages. It's a different environment, and one that is bound to cause
great diversity, since the other languages are quite different in
different places.
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