World Englishes


Márcio Lavandeira 12.ºCT8

https://oxfordre.com/linguistics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.001.0001/acrefore-9780199384655-e-270

" English clearly is the world’s most widely used language in the early 21st century: the language of formal and other interactions in very many countries, the main tool of globalization, and the default choice for transnational communication. Initially, the expansion of the British Empire, beginning in the 17th century and driven by various motives for colonization, brought it to all continents: North America and the Caribbean, the southern hemisphere (including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other territories), and also Asia, Africa, and the Pacific region. In contact with indigenous languages new, increasingly stable and localized varieties of English with properties and functions of their own have grown in many countries."

Commentary:

As you might know English has a lot of varieties. It is indeed the most spoken language in the world, the language that people use to communicate between them, the language that they to use to study abroad, but this fantastic and important language has changed across the years. It changed to something incredible. For example, American English, British English, Australian English, South Africa English, Canadian English, etc, are examples of varieties of English. But which varies between the various types of English? That is an explanation that I can tell you. Well between these types of English varies the way that they speak, the way that they write their words, their pronunciation, their grammar, and how they spelling the words.

Now I'm going to post an image so that you can see the differences between those varieties of English. 

So as you can see English has a lot of varieties. I hope that with this image you learned about this topic.








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