LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Indianisms in English Language -
With Special Reference to Malayalam English

K. Muthu Rajan & A. Anitha Raj

Impact of English on Indian Languages

This paper is an attempt at reading the influence of the global language English over an Indian language, Malayalam. The influence is on both the languages as one uses the other whenever there is a need. The speakers of Indian languages have got influenced by English and even an uneducated common man uses English letters and fuses them with those of his native words and sentences.

English, as a global language, is spoken by 750 million people around the world. In India the superiority and prestige of English over other languages of the country remain unquestioned. “India is the third largest English using population of the world, after USA and UK” (210), states Aarti Bansal. This language plays an important role in the domains of education, management, commerce and political relations, judiciary, engineering, and is therefore an entry to social mobility, higher education, and better job opportunities. English has also become an effective tool used by Indians to communicate among themselves across their language boundaries. It is however ironical that even though English enjoys a high status in India, its teaching, speaking and learning in the educational institutes in India

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K. Muthu Rajan, M.A., M.Phil.
Reseach Centre in English
VHNSN College
Virudhunagar 626001 Tamil Nadu
India
muthurajan75@yahoo.com

A. Anitha Raj, M.A., M.Phil.
VVV College for Women
Virudhunagar 626001
Tamil Nadu
India
anithaajith82@gmail.com
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