User:Semyon/Novosevenskian English

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This section summarises the changes that took place in the language of Novosevensk from its founding in 1880 to the present.

Phase 1: Native Russian
This was the stage between 1880 and 1918 when everyone in the settlement spoke Russian natively.

Phase 2: Other languages and Russian pidgin
Phase 2 began after 1918, when a large number of inhabitants could not speak Russian. They spoke their own languages to other members of their ethnicity and broken, pidgin Russian to other ethnicities.

Phase 3: Russian creole
Due to ethnic intermarriage, some children began to speak the pidgin as a native language. By this time a small British settlement had been founded not far from Novosevensk, and these children were sent to school there. The pidgin was forced to develop as for the first time it became a native language and new words were needed. As the children learnt English in school, these new words were supplied from English.

Phase 4: Native English (with Russian borrowings)
The Phase 4 language was created by the creole speakers, who taught it to their children. The use of the new language quickly became seen as backward by the inhabitants of Novosevensk, and the Russian words began to fade away from the language. It is posited that that all Russian words would have disappeared completely, had the English speakers of the British settlement and Kinley not borrowed words from the creole, reversing the process.

It should be noted that throughout this time, and up to the present, the original pre-revolutionary Russian speakers continued to speak Russian. They had by now attained the status of aristocracy and Russian had become a higher class language.