Artificial Quote by William Golding

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

— William Golding

English is an Indian language. It reaches a wider audience across the country.

— Shobana

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

— David Crystal

English is the medium of communication for people all over India.

— Aparna Sen

“English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging…

— Chigozie Obioma

India has a national structure that accepts various languages. Nobody can dilute it.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

— Ha Jin

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content…

— Edward Sapir

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

— Louise Bogan

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

— Vikas Swarup

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of…

— Susan Griffin

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

— Emile M. Cioran