5 English Across the World

It refers to the transportation of English from the British Isles during colonial expansion, e.g. English in the Americas, Africa and Australasia

1.5 billion

1) Wales: English became dominant in the 19th century

2) Scotland: Northumbrian spread to Scotland during the 6th century AD

3) Ireland: First English-speaking settlers in 12th century.

A model by David DeCamp. At one end of the continuum is the acrolect ('highest variety'), Standard Jamaican English, more formal, associated with education, mass media, professional life and descended from the seventeenth and eighteenth century British English dialects. (In Jamaica)

2) At the other end, is the basilect ('base variety'), Jamaican Creole, which displayds possible underlying African influence

3) At all points in between is the mesolect ('middle variety'), the speech used by most Jamaican in most situations

Words like price and house are articulated with the tongue higher in the mouth than in general American English

That is, the grammatical components or morphemes of the word are each translated from the donor language into their equivalents in the borrowing language, e.g. muis = mouse, hond = 'dog, hound'

1) Cultivated
2) General
3) Broad