1.3. English in america

English is spoken as a native language in two major spheres:

● the US and the English-speaking Canada,

● the Caribbean area centring on Jamaica, and Antilles and Guyana, and the peripheral area - the creol speaking sections of the Atlantic coast of the Central America. Creol is a language that having originated as a pidgin has become established as the first language in a speech community.

A simplified language derived from two or more languages is called a pidgin. It is a contact language developed and used by people who do not share a common language in a given geographical area. It is used in a limited way and the structure is very simplistic. Since such languages serve a single simplistic purpose, they usually die out.

E.g.: ai no kea hu stei hant insai dea.

I no care who stay hunt inside there

I don’t care who’s hunting in there

These two areas are distinguished according to two criteria:

● educated Caribbean is clearly oriented towards British English while the US English and Canadian English make up American English despite numerous British English features to be found in the Canadian English;

● the second criteria is rooted in creol English linguistic continuum which exists in Caribbean English but not in American English.