COMMUNICATIO

N STUDIES
LANGUAGE IN
SOCIETY
 RECAP
• What is Language Variation?
• What is Dialect?
• What is meant by Standard Variety?
• What is Code Switching?
• What is Register?
 RECAP CONT
• What is Creole?

• What is Pidgin?

• What are some of characteristics of Caribbean Creole?

THE MODERN
LANGUAGE
STITUATION
Each society is distinct in terms of the language or languages used.


A society where only one language is used is said to be “Monolingual”.

Where two language is used, it is said to be “Bilingual”.


Where multiple languages are used, it is said to be “Multilingual”.
 MULTILINGUAL
COUNTRIES
Countries Main Language
Belize English, Garifuna, Mopan, English Creole, Spanish,
Ketchi

China Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Min, Hakka, Xiang, Gan

Hindi

India Hindi, English, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Telugu

Iran Farsi, Kurdish, Baluchi, Turki, Arabic
Nigeria Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, English, Kanuri, Ibibio
Most countries have an official language.

Some countries have a national language.

 FACTORS
INFLUENCING
LANGUAGE
 FACTORS INFLUENCING
LANGUAGE
Historical

Social

Cultural

Political
 LANGUAGE
SITUATION IN THE
CARIBBEAN
Distribution of Caribbean Territories according to Official Language

Spanish Dutch
10% 10%
French
14% Dutch

English

French

Spanish
English
66%