1
Identify the language variety being referred to in the following statements
Write the letter that corresponds to your answer on the space provided
before each number
- Didgin
b. Creole
d. Minority Didieci
e. Indigenized Varieties
c. Regional Dialect
1. It is spoken mainly as second languages in ex-colonies with
multilingual populations.
2. It is a variety of a particular minority ethnic group which they use
as a marker of identity
3. It refers to a new language which develops in situations where
speakers of different languages need to communicate but don't
share a common language
4. When children start learning a pidgin as their first language and
it becomes the mother tongue of a community, this variety is
formed.
5. It is not a distinct language, but a variety of a language spoken in
a particular area of a country.
6. These have been given traditional names which mark them out as
being significantly different from standard varieties spoken in the
same place
7. Like a pidgin, it is a distinct language which has taken most of its
vocabulary from another language, the lexifier, but has its own
unique grammatical rules.
8. The vocabulary of this variety comes mainly from one particular
language called the lexifier.
9 Fxamoles of this are African American Vernaculer English
the USA, London Jamaican in Britain, and Aboriginal English in
Australia
10. An examnie of these is singlich (spoken in Singapore), a variety
very different from standard English
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