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Dismiss 'Indianisalion' of English, citing
mples of some major features of Indian
English?
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Indian English is any of the forms of English characteristic of the Indian subcontinent. English has
slowly become the lingua franca of India, and is the language of their cultural and political elites, offering
significant economic, political and social advantage to fluent speakers.
Though English is one of modern India's twenty-two official languages, only a few hundred
thousand Indians have English as their first language. According to the 2005 India Human Development
Survey, of the 41,554 surveyed households reported that 72 percent of men (29,918) did not speak any
English, 28 percent (11,635) spoke some English, and 5 percent (2,077) spoke fluent English. Among
women, the corresponding percentages were 83 percent (34,489) speaking no English, 17 percent (7,064)
speaking some English, and 3 percent (1,246) speaking English fluently. According to statistics of District
Information System for Education (DISE) of National University of Educational Planning and
Administration under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, enrolment in
English-medium schools increased by 50% between 2008-09 and 2013-14. The number of English-medium
schools students in India increased from over 1.5 crore in 2008-09 to 2.9 crore by 2013-14.
Indian English generally uses the Indian numbering system. Idiomatic forms derived from Indian
literary languages and vernaculars have been absorbed into Indian English. Nevertheless, there remains
general homogeneity in phonetics, vocabulary, and phraseology between variants of the Indian English
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