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ENGLISH IN NIGERIA - Coggle Diagram
ENGLISH IN NIGERIA
Phonology
Unreliable stress placement
Non-reduction of unstressed vowels
[eɪ] = monophthongal [e]
ex : gate sounds like get
[əʊ] = [o:]
ex : low sounds like law
the way a word is written has an influence on its pronunciation
consonant clusters
epenthesis ex : [helap] for help
deletion: ex : [kɔntak] for contact)
Dental fricatives exist X in native Nigerian languages
<th> = [s] and [z] OR [t] and [d]
Nigerian ling. landscape +
500 lang > usage
major =
Igbo
Yoruba
Hausa
many multilingual
"non-indig" (Fr, Arab.)
No Standard Nigerian English
many "nn-stand" varieties =
Hausa English
Igbo English
Yoruba English
Nig English = nativ.
"English speaker" = not clear denotation
how many ?
= native-like
limited voc
litterature
imp body of W
Wole Soyinka = first African awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1986)
place of Enlgish in N.
complaints abt bad spoken/written quality of English
(but actually everywhere)
grammar, spelling, voc...
Labov’s Golden Age Principle
BEFORE : perfect lang
NOW : change = failure/corruption
dual views
Exoglossic / prescription
"faulty" Standerd Brit Engl
endoglossic / description
Nig variety = own right
History of English here
brought by :
1553 : traders (Captain Windham)
1842 : Chrisitian missionaries
school = priority
protestants > Bible = important
"schoolish/bookish" Engl
Royal Niger Company + British government
1886 + 1889
pol points
1914 : protectorates united as the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria
1960 : independence