For example, Africa does not participate fully in global commerce. As a result, they are subjugated by the prominent languages of trade French, English language and other languages of world trade and are expected to use the languages in business engagements. Though they speak local languages in the local setting, to separate them from the language of commerce, they have to speak the global language to be accepted into the world economy.The writer indicates that the Western Indies have undergone several layers of language loss for decades from the native languages like Arawakan and the Caribs, the enslaved African to the current situation of the creole vernacular which is an amalgam of lost languages in that zone. Also the language of the masses there is entirely different from the acrolectal type used by the upper class in that society. The Creole speakers have resisted any attempt to make them speak the acrolectal
For example, Africa does not participate fully in global commerce. As a result, they are subjugated by the prominent languages of trade French, English language and other languages of world trade and are expected to use the languages in business engagements. Though they speak local languages in the local setting, to separate them from the language of commerce, they have to speak the global language to be accepted into the world economy.The writer indicates that the Western Indies have undergone several layers of language loss for decades from the native languages like Arawakan and the Caribs, the enslaved African to the current situation of the creole vernacular which is an amalgam of lost languages in that zone. Also the language of the masses there is entirely different from the acrolectal type used by the upper class in that society. The Creole speakers have resisted any attempt to make them speak the acrolectal