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Indian English
Queen Elizabeth l started the East India Company in 1600 to develop trade between Britain and India. English became the language used for trading. Some words, which meant one thing in Britain, meant another thing in Indian English. -
Creole
English arrived in the Caribbean with settlers in the 1620's. A new form of English called Creole is thought to have started as a simplified English spoken between sailors and slaves on the ships that brought the Africans to the Caribbean. We do know that the slaves used many English words, which they mixed with their native language. -
Australia before 1788
Before 1788, Australia had 250 languages and an estimated population of 750 000 people. Many of these languages were Aboriginal and died