Ethnicity and language

• The diversity in Britain has led to increasing variation in the usage of English speakers with different ethnic backgrounds.
• New languages are formed when two or more languages have contact. Forms appear by the exchange of grammatical, lexical and phonological elements e.g CEP - Chinese Pidgin English. CPE began in 17th century, it was used between English and Chinese traders.
• Pidgins- This evolved from a main soure of language, usualy taking the majority of their vocabulary but are less gramatically developed. Pidgin is spoken when in social contexts rather then having native speakers. However, non pidgin speakers but speak one of the contributing languages used are unable to understand pidgin.
• Creoles: Creoles grew out of Pidgin as it became more established as it is begining to be used by second generations. The grammar is usually derived from source languages in a simplified.

MARK SEBBA: London Jamaican

• He identified the main choices of young, new generation speakers born into London Carribbean communities as effectively being between Carribbean creole forms.
• he defines London Jamaican as a language with a combination of phonological, lexical and grammatical elements.
• it is influenced by Jamaican Creole, which had an impact on British colonists since 17/18th century

SUE FOX:   multi ethnic youth dialect

• He research showed a variety of 'multi ethnic youth dialects' which she had termed down to 'Multicultural London English.' This form of multicultural dialect is is gaining ground with youths in Birmingham and Bristol.
• Culturally diverse youth population of London has formed fertile conditions for the growth of the variety.
• It is also a rapidly changing dialect . Words, phrases and even pronounciation features are adopted and adapted by/to its speaker. it reflects the semi-parodied firms of language used by Ali G.