Bahasa Inggris India

Bahasa Inggris India adalah berbagai bentuk dari karakteristik bahasa Inggris di subbenua India.^[1] Bahasa Inggris adalah lingua franca di India dan merupakan bahasa elit politik dan budaya mereka, yang memiliki dampak ekonomi dan sosial bagi para pemakai bahasanya.^[2]

Meskipun bahasa Inggris adalah salah satu dari dua puluh dua bahasa resmi di India pada masa sekarang, hanya beberapa ratus ribu orang India yang menjadikan bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa pertama mereka.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} Menurut Survei Perkembangan Manusia India 2005, dari 41,554 rumah tangga yang disurvei dikabarkan bahwa 72 persen pria (29918) tidak dapat berbicara dalam bahasa Inggris, 28 persen (11635) dapat mengetahui beberapa kata dalam bahasa Inggris, dan lima persen (2077) dapat berbicara dalam bahasa Inggris. Sementara pada kaum wanita, persentase menyatakan bahwa 83 persen (34489) tidak dapat berbicara dalam bahasa Inggris, 17 persen (7064) dapat mengetahui beberapa kata dalam bahasa Inggris, dan 3 persen (1246) dapat berbicara dalam bahasa Inggris.^[8]

Bahasa Inggris India umumnya menggunakan sistem penomoran India.

1. ^ Sedlatschek 2009, hlm. 1: Today many regional varieties of English, or Englishes exist around the globe and are slowly but steadily gaining recognition. Indian English (IndE) is one of the oldest.
2. ^ Aatish Taseer (19 Maret 2015). "How English Ruined Indian Literature". The New York Times. Diakses tanggal 21 Maret 2015. It has created a linguistic line as unbreachable as the color line once was in the United States. 
3. ^ Sensus India's Indian Census, Issue 25, 2003, pp 8–10, (Feature: Languages of West Bengal in Census and Surveys, Bilingualism and Trilingualism).
4. ^ FAMILY-WISE GROUPING OF THE 122 SCHEDULED AND NON-SCHEDULED LANGUAGES – Sensus India 2001
5. ^ Tropf, Herbert S. 2005. India and its Languages Diarsipkan 2008-03-08 di Wayback Machine.. Siemens AG, Munich
6. ^ For the distinction between "English Speakers," and "English Users," please see: TESOL-India (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)], India: World's Second Largest English-Speaking Country Diarsipkan 2010-12-04 di Wayback Machine.. Their article explains the difference between the 350 million number mentioned in a previous version of this Wikipedia article and the current number:

   "Wikipedia's India estimate of 350 million includes two categories – "English Speakers" and "English Users". The distinction between the Speakers and Users is that Users only know how to read English words while Speakers know how to read English, understand spoken English as well as form their own sentences to converse in English. The distinction becomes clear when you consider China's numbers. China has over 200 million that can read English words but, as anyone can see on the streets of China, only a few million are English speakers."

7. ^ An analysis of the 2001 Census of India, published in 2010 Diarsipkan 2011-05-04 di Wayback Machine., concluded that approximately 86 million Indians reported English as their second language, and another 39 million reported it as their third language. No data was available whether these individuals were English speakers or users.
8. ^ "HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA" (PDF). OUP. 2005. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal 2014-01-16. Diakses tanggal 2015-06-20.