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Hybridized English in Ghana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Samuel Ahulu
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Abstract

A consideration of the mixed usage that has arisen in this West African country between English and the indigenous languages

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English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 1995 , pp. 31 - 36
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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