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BanjoYs (1969) classification of Nigerian English is rested on the use of the criteria of and .
Answer: local acceptability in nigeria and international intelligibility
Nigerian English is different from the native speaker’s of English and other English’s in terms of its use of some culture- specific transformations as well as its non-observance of certain global and —
Answer: surface structure constraints
Among BamgboseVs (1982) classification of Nigerian English, the English variety has a close association with the so called cosmopolitan 19th century Lagos Negro English.
Answer: Victorian
\”While numerous scholars argue that a national language should be one of the indigenous languages, it is a reality that non of the Nigerian indigenous languages has been developed enough to handle many of the functions of a national language\”. This assertion is
