English As An Indo-English Language

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English is power “ Power to control” language is influential authority of the most powerful nation, “Latin is an Indo-European language. Have a genetic relationship of large numbers of similarities both in vocabulary and grammar with Greek, Russian, Dutch, Farsi, English and many other ancient languages.” It is the mother of all languages. It was spoken mainly in Rome and in the plain of Latium in the 6th or 7th century B.C. and carried around the world to be the language of the Civilization by power of military, philosophy, literature, religions of The Roman empire. Even after the collapse of the roman empire and for many centuries the huge monuments legacy of Latin literature, philosophy, law and science was deeply rooted in the norms…show more content…
Kachru refers to the status of English in countries such as, Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Zambia as a result of colonization by the British empire but it did not replace their indigenous languages instead the it co-existed with them in certain role. So that, they are the ESL countries where English is not the first language for the majority but it is used in institutional context in the form of education and bureaucracy. Unlike the ENL countries, the variety of English they use is deeply rooted in their culture and still having their local history, literature, literary tradition and communicative norms for that they are “Norm- developing”…show more content…
English is alive evident functional reality of global language. English has followed the steps of the first world’s global language (Latin) to occupy the current global status. But emphatically, English had built up her authoritative castle on the monuments legacy of her mother Latin, so that English is essential to the world for it’s convenient vocabularies and crystal notions as medium and access of communication in every field. English was belonged to England, there it was made and by the British it was spread. But English Language has been changed over hundreds of years borrowing and adapting words and functioning different grammars form whatever languages it contacts and “English will be changed” (David crystal 2000). “now English language is no longer belongs to the English (Benjamin Zephaniah)” so the privilege of the global language does not belong to the British empire or to the American Imperialism only but to every variety and dialect of English around the World where the greatest English writings are produced by second language speaker. But the matter of standardization is vital to keep the English language in one unite. “Other varieties of English must not become even more differentiated, so that we end up with an English 'family of languages” (David Crystal

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