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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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