Nigerian English

Handout 2
Task 1. Read the articles above and mark the information below:
T – if the statement is true;
F – if the statement is false;
NG – if the information is not given in the passage;

Statement	Answer
British trading contacts on the West African coast in the sixteenth century
In this days and age English does not play essential role in Nigeria
Nigerians use English because of British conolisation that ended in 1860.
However, no creole has gained enough status to be accepted as a national language. Nowadays, English and Spanish are the official languages.
However, English is the second language, it is not spoken at all in several rural areas
Contact between indigenous and colonizers led to borrowing items. English as the official language. There has been American English influence, and vocabulary has been affected
In 1987, President Ershad replaced English with Bengali as the language of most of the lower courts, but this status was restored in 2010.
A vital number of people in Bangladesh communicate in English and Urdu
Countries which needed new industrial knowledge could access it via the medium of English, something which made powerful again the language internationally.
In 2012, the High Court banned the use of "Banglish", described as a slang mixture of Bengali and English, in radio and television programs, in order to the prevent the corruption of both languages.