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VIDEO: David Crystal - Will English always be the global language?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kvs8SxN8mc The Indian accent (Indian English) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoF4i77kPakNigerian pidgin English accepted as unofficial second language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PySU5yeg9-M

Lingua Franca400-500 million speakers (pidgins and varieties):3 kind of steps:1. It doesn’t consider English as a lingua Franca, it’s related to the use as a second language. 2. The second language is a language that you study in the context where it’s spoken.3. The foreign language is for example English for us.Official or semi-official: it’s used in every form on the nation, for example political. Non native speakers start influencing native speakers. Sociolinguistics have no tools to analize the situation; there are...

It’s strictly related to the idea of standard.VIDEO: The RP English Accent – What is it, how does it sound, and who uses it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcIX-U5w5Ws RP: concerned to pronunciation only, so how words are pronounced. It’s rooted on standard English. Standard English is a variety, it’s related to grammar, syntax… the all system.RP is related only to the way words are pronounced, you cannot say where a person comes from or not.RP has no regional features, it became very...