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Publication details [#49975]

Ebunlola Adamo, Grace. 2007. Nigerian English. English Today 23 (1) : 42–47.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | economics | historical explanation | language contact | language variety

Language as a subject

English, Nigerian | Languages, Nigerian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses how the current Nigerian English language variety is the result from language contact between (trade and colonial) English and indigenous Nigerian languages.