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	Australian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australian English (AuE) is the form of the English language used in Australia.
		Australian English began to diverge from British English soon after the foundation of the Colony of New South Wales (NSW) in 1788.
		The so-called "Americanisation" of Australian English — signified by the borrowing of words, terms, and usages from North American English — began during the goldrushes, and was accelerated by a massive influx of United States military personnel during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_English (2230 words)

	English language - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		English has lingua franca (diplomatic language) status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the United Kingdom in the 18th and 19th centuries and the United States beginning in the 20th century.
		English is the primary language in Australia (Australian English), the Bahamas, Barbados (Caribbean English), Bermuda, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica (Jamaican English), New Zealand (New Zealand English), Antigua and Barbuda, St.
		English is the most widely used and learned "foreign" language in the world, and, as such, many linguists believe it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers," but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/English_language (3170 words)

	Malawian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malawian English is the English language as spoken in Malawi.
		English and Chichewa language are the country's two official languages.
		English was introduced into Malawi towards the end of the 19th century, due to the influence of British explorers, missionaries, the arrival of the African Lakes Corporation, and colonial administrators present since the establishment in the 1890s of the British Central Africa Protectorate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malawian_English (295 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: British English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Historically, the widespread usage of English across the world is attributed to the former power of the British Empire, and hence the most common form of English used by the British ruling class that of south-east England (the area around the capital, London, and the ancient English university towns of Oxford and Cambridge).
		English English is a term that has been applied to the English language as spoken in England.
		Southern American English is a group of dialects of the English language spoken throughout the Southern region of the United States, from northern Virginia and central Kentucky to the Gulf Coast, and from the Atlantic coast to central Texas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-English (2923 words)

	American English - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Newfoundland English and the dialect of New Britain, Connecticut are notable exceptions.
		English words that arose in the U.S. A number of words that arose in the United States have become common, to varying degrees, in English as it is spoken internationally.
		English words obsolete outside the U.S. A number of words that originated in the English of the British Isles are still in everyday use in North America, but are no longer used in most varieties of British English.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/a/m/e/American_English_16a3.html (1788 words)

	World congress on language policies
		English is viewed as a symbol of social status irrespective of whether or not one has a facility in it.
		English is not, from the MPs' responses, a nationalistic language in Malawi since only 5.1% of the respondents felt more Malawian by speaking English; it is not the language in which Malawians imagine their national community.
		English confers status on the house and it should be used "to maintain the high standards of the house and the caliber of members of parliament chosen to this house" (Questionnaire comment 4).
	www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/taller1/Matiki.html (7485 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Commonwealth English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In Australian English, the difference is still greater (often 3:1, by frequencies in the ACE corpus), and the tendency has been reinforced by official endorsement of -ise by the Australian government Style Manual since 1966.
		Although Hiberno-English (Irish English) is listed as Commonwealth English, the Republic of Ireland is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, but Northern Ireland is (as part of the United Kingdom).
		Although Hong Kong English is listed as Commonwealth English, since 1997 Hong Kong is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, but a Special Administrative Region of China.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Commonwealth_English (958 words)

	Malawi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the British remained in control during the first half of the 1900s, this period was marked by a number of unsuccessful Malawian attempts to obtain independence.
		Increasing domestic unrest and pressure from Malawian churches and from the international community led to a referendum in which the Malawian people were asked to vote for either a multi-party democracy or the continuation of a one-party state.
		Migrations and tribal conflicts precluded the formation of a cohesive Malawian society until the turn of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malawi (3299 words)

	Canadian English - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Similar calques from other languages are found in English throughout Canada, particularly in BC and the Prairies where translated usages from European languages are common, whether inherited from parents or spoken by new immigrants.
		British Columbia English has several words still in current use which are loanwords from the Chinook Jargon, which was widely spoken throughout the province by all ethnicities well into the middle of the 20th Century.
		English is a minority language in Quebec, but has many speakers in Montréal, the Eastern Townships and in the Gatineau-Ottawa region.
	canadianenglish.quickseek.com (4663 words)

	Australian English - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The so-called "Americanisation" of Australian English — signified by the borrowing of words, terms and usages from American English — which began during the goldrushes, was accelerated by a massive influx of US military personnel during World War II.
		Broad Australian English is the archetypal and most recognisable variety and is familiar to English speakers around the world, because of its use in identifying Australian characters in non-Australian films and television programs.
		Broad Australian English is recognisable by a certain nasal drawl and the prevalence of long diphthongs.
	australianenglish.quickseek.com (3043 words)

	American English - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is estimated that approximately two thirds of native speakers of English live in the United States.
		Most North American speech is rhotic, as English was in most places in the 17th century.
		This is called Canadian raising; it is general in Canadian English, and occurs in some northerly versions of American English as well (often just applying to the diphthong /ɑɪ/, but not to /ɑʊ/).
	americanenglish.quickseek.com (1883 words)

	Commonwealth English - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The term is little used, and when used is most often synonymous with British English in its narrower sense or with International English in a specialised sense which excludes American English.
		Although Hiberno-English (Irish English) is listed as Commonwealth English, the Republic of Ireland is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, although Northern Ireland is a member, being part of the United Kingdom.
		Although Hong Kong English is listed as Commonwealth English, since 1997 Hong Kong has not been a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, but a Special Administrative Region of China.
	commonwealthenglish.quickseek.com (970 words)

	Friends of Malawi: Learn About Malawi: About Malawian Geography
		Malawian education is based on the British education system.
		The language of instruction also presents a barrier to learning: while not all communities speak Chichewa at home, Chichewa is taught to primary school students early on, and instruction takes place in that language.
		By Form 1, students are expected to be conversant in English as well; secondary school instruction materials and exams are written in English, though practicality demands that teachers frequently conduct education in Chichewa.
	www.friendsofmalawi.org /learn_about_malawi/institutions/education.html (584 words)

	ID21 - communicating development research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		English has thus been given favoured status in education and in the public domain in Malawi and Zambia.
		Malawian pupils read much better in Chichewa than Zambian pupils read in Nyanja, attributed to neglect of local languages by Zambian teachers and because school books use a different variety of Nyanja from that known by pupils.
		Teaching in a local language, with English as a separate subject, is recommended as having the potential to be more a useful educational objective throughout primary school.
	www.id21.org /id21ext/4cjd1.html (661 words)

	Why 'American' English? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		An English does not have to be unintellible to speakers of different Englishes to be recognised as a language itself.
		The global imbalance in the recognition and value of different Englishes is the problem that should be addressed, not the degree by which one English must differ from another to warrent being labelled as distinctive.
		Yes, English as the language was probably developed in Britian, but just because another culture or nation changes a few things here or there, we don't deserve to put in a way, "put down" for it.
	www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?TID=3562&page=3 (2412 words)

	Jack Mapanje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Malawian poet Jack Mapanje taught in Malawi Secondary Schools before he joined the Department of English at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, in 1975, first as a lecturer, then as Head of the Department of English.
		in English and Education from The Institute of Education London, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from University College London in 1983.
		He was imprisoned without trial or charge by the Malawian government in 1987, and although many writers, linguists and human rights activists, including Harold Pinter and Wole Soyinka, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky and others campaigned for his release, he was not freed until 1991.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth02C22P033712627096 (1276 words)

	EnglishToolbox.net \| David Appleyard's Overview of Territory-Related Words
		Learning the English names of lesser-known countries or dependencies, and their corresponding citizens, nationality adjectives and languages, is no mean task.
		The chart gives us a clear impression of just how geographically widespread English is in the world of today, be it as a first language, a second language, a lingua franca, or the language of officialdom.
		English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Oriya, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Assamese, Sindhi, Sanskrit, Hindustani
	www.davidappleyard.com /english/territory_words.htm (449 words)

	Malawian tenders
		Visit www.malawi-vision.com, and read up-to minute suggetions on the subject of not only Malawian tenders, but also Blantyre and Malawian English.
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		Look at www.malawi-vision.com for Malawian tenders and additional uncommon info on Malawi and Malawian tenders but also do not fail to spot attractions from Malawi nature map, Malawi literature, malawi cichlids sale, and in what is the tourism of malawi one may irrefutably hit upon knowledge linked to Malawian tenders.
	www.malawi-vision.com /Empire-Malawi/Malawian-tenders-.html (173 words)

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		[English Word] machinist [English Plural] machinists [Swahili Word] dreva [Swahili Plural] madreva [Part of Speech] noun [Class] 5/6an [Note] Engl.
		[English Example] play a march [Swahili Example] piga machi [Terminology] music [English Word] march [English Plural] marches [Swahili Word] mwendo [Swahili Plural] miendo [Part of Speech] noun [Class] 3/4 [Derived Word] enda V [English Example] a day's march.
		[English Example] a polygynous marriage is one in which a man has more than one wife.
	research.yale.edu /swahili/serve_files/txt/e/eM.txt (656 words)

	asahi.com：JICA volunteer's AIDS song strikes a chord in Malawian youth - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Titled "Ndimakukhonda," the song has topped the music chart in Malawi, and was even nominated for the local version of the Grammy awards last year.
		As he got to know Malawian youths, he often heard something that bothered him immensely.
		Asahi Weekly is the foremost teacher of English in Japan through news, features and columns.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200603170176.html (883 words)

	Malawi (06/06)
		Although the Malawian constitution provides for a Senate, in practice the legislative branch’s upper house does not exist.
		U.S. and Malawian views on the necessity of economic and political stability in southern Africa generally coincide.
		The proportion of Malawian children sleeping under an insecticide treated bednet (ITN) (26% in 2004) was more than three times the proportion (8%) sleeping under an ITN in 2000.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/7231.htm (5132 words)

	Malawian inspires English club to promotion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A Malawian football prodigy Tamika Mkandawire is making waves in English football where he has inspired Hereford FC earn promotion from the Conference League into the English League Two.
		The right back, who once expressed serious interest to play for the Flames while turning out for English Premiership outfit West Bromwich Albion’s reserve side, was the driving force as Hereford beat Halifax Town 3-2 in extra time to wing into League Two.
		Mkandawire, who has a Malawian father and British mother, expressed interest to play for the Flames three years ago, but the authorities here never followed up the matter with him.
	www.nationmalawi.com /articles.asp?articleID=16908 (461 words)

	Distribution and Contacts - Malawi
		The office is run entirely by Malawians with a showroom for our visitors and a warehouse from which orders can be distributed to all over Malawi.
		The emphasis throughout is on the functional approach to teaching and learning English, and speaking, listening, reading and writing are practised through meaningful activities.
		The course draws on current developments from the field of teaching English as a second language, integrating skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, teaching grammar in context and using a wide variety of texts, including literature.
	www.macmillan-africa.com /Contacts/Malawi.htm (603 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		Jamaican English or Jamaican Standard English is a dialect of English encompassing in a very unique way, parts and mergers of both American English and British English dialects.
		Although the distinction between the two is best described as a continuum rather than a solid line, it is not to be confused with what linguists call Jamaican Creole, nor with the vocabulary and language approach of the Rastafarian movement.
		The most noticeable aspect of Jamaican English for speakers of other varieties of English is the pronunciation or "accent".
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Jamaican_English (1072 words)

	World Music Central - Malawian Artist Releases Echoes of dreams
		Paris, France - Malawian singer Malia is back with her second album Echoes of dreams after Yellow Daffodils (Epic/Sony France).
		She is now releasing a soul and blues project inspired by her trips to Malawi (her childhood country), London and New York, all this mixed with a ‘pop’sound.
		From her bi-cultural background, Malawian and English, she gets a great taste for exploring new paths.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20041002121029466 (196 words)

	English In The New World
		From its early British heritage, the English language has evolved and it will continue to do so as it creeps its way into societies all over the world.
		The English you know may not be what another person, who lives in another country, knows.
		Then, I added a page in my book where I explain to the reader the most common differences between the Australian English and the English they may be accustomed to.
	www.articletrader.com /writing/english-in-the-new-world.html (549 words)

	Penpals from Malawi : penfriends for kids, teachers & Students of the World
		I'm a Malawian young man who has just graduated with a Diploma in Electrical And Electronics engineering from the University of Malawi.
		I'm a Malawian studying in university of Malawi.
		I'm a Malawian looking for pals from all over the world.
	www.studentsoftheworld.info /penpals/penpal_ads.php?Pays_Choisi=MWI (624 words)

	Learn English Online
		My goal is to use the Internet and related technologies to provide English as a Second Language classes.
		The goal of Learn English Online is to provide free English as a Second Languages for anyone that has Internet access.
		Learning English or any language requires speaking, listening, written exercises, and feedback from a teacher.
	acohen843.tripod.com (493 words)

	Chichewa language resources
		Malawian newspapers are published in English (though some include small Chichewa supplements), English remains the language of commerce in the country.
		English and Chichewa are both official languages in the African nation of Malawi.
		Chichewa is a Bantu language widely spoken in Malawi, while a very close dialect of Chichewa, called Chinyanja, is spoken in much of Zambia and parts of Mozambique.
	mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Chichewa.html (1445 words)

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