OUR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE AND ITS IDENTITY Language is species specific and species generic possession that is uniquely human. It is peculiar to human beings and it can be both an individual property (when it exists as knowledge) and a social property, (when it manifests to perform its functions). The survival of the language of a people is very vital to the people's survival on the whole. In 2012, the United Nations held a forum on ‘The Study on the role of languages and culture in the promotion
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Globalization [pic] 1.ID language: English Term: immigration ID country: worldwide Source: internet Standard definition: The one-way inward movement of individuals or their disseminules into a population or population area.( Departure from one's native land to settle in another) Definition source: internet(http://www.answers.com/topic/immigration) Grammatical category: noun, uncountable Antonym: emigration Synonyms: exodus, migration, transmigration Contexts: “The political debate about immigration
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CODIFICATION OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH: ISSUES IN EMPIRICAL LINGUISTICS Alexandra Uzoaku Esimaje Department of English Studies, Benson Idahosa University, Benin city Email: alexandra.esimaje@live.com ABSTRACT In the English speaking world where English is either a second or foreign language, the emergence of new forms of the language is a proven socio-linguistic reality of language contact. This results from the needs of the host environment both to communicate to the foreigners and to one another
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HISTORY OF LANGUAGE Language is a set of symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them. It is one of the most important innovations of men. Language can be used in different ways for different purposes. But mostly, its primary use is for communication. Language was considered to have a “life cycle” and to develop according to evolutionary laws. In addition, it was believed that language, like the human animal, has a “genealogical tree” –that is, that each language can be traced
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Linguistic Diversity: The Role of English on Education in Ethiopia 1. Introduction Ethiopia is one of the diversified countries in Africa more than 80 languages are spoken and a diversified culture is experienced. The existing multiethnic and multilingual situation is a challenge to the education system of Ethiopia. Each region, state, city, district, school, and classroom faces a unique demographic situation. So educators locally are facing a different environment of diversity than portrayed
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with their neighbour, with whom they share a vast boundary and vigorous trade links, they are proud of the differences between the two countries and their peoples. They are often more subdued and measured than Americans. The majority of Canada is English-speaking although in the eastern part of the country, French is widespread and the fracophone Quebec at times threatens to secede from the confederation. A new awareness has arisen in recent years of the rights and traditions of the Aboriginal people
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Baback Nabidavoodi Dr. Harder English 1B 30 January 2014 Defining Democracy Democracy began in ancient Mesopotamia and continued on through classical Greece and Rome then towards the rise of Islamic civilization to the modern day in the United States. It has gone through its trials and tribulations to become what it is today and continues to change and grow. Democracy is defined in the Merriam Webster dictionary as "a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised
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The English that was brought to America in seventeenth century was, of course, the language--or versions of the language--of Early Modern England. The year of the Captain John Smith's founding of Jamestown (1607) coincides roughly with Shakespeare's writing of Timon of Athens and Pericles, and the King James Bible (the "Authorized Version") was published only four years later, in 1611. It was not long before writers on both sides of the Atlantic began to acknowledge the language's divergence. As
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De Stefani Caterina Univerity of Trento n.151433 University of Latvia n.cd13004 ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY: Research on the Tasmanians, the destruction of their people and their culture and the opinion of the English scientist of the Tasmanians in the 19th century? Since the 60s of the XVIII century, the Aboriginal Tasmanians caught the attention of the scientific community due to their primitive characters and became the subject of studies of physical anthropology and paleoanthropology.
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France); 20 % smaller than Italy. Twice the size of New York. It’s less than 1000km from the southern coast of England to the extreme north of the Scottish mainland and under 500km. The British Isles are separated from continental Europe by the English Channel with the Strait of Dover, in the east- by the North sea, in the west- by the Atlantic Ocean. The term GB was used for the 1st time in the 17th c. under the reign of king James VI of Scotland. The UK of GB merged with the kingdom of Ireland
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