Foreign Language In English

English is the most utilized language in comparison to other language in the world. This is the only language in the world which has more non native users than the native ones. “No matter whose statistics one believes; it is clear that English now has more non-native speakers than native ones. Some estimates put the ratio at four to one in favor of the non native speakers”. Weeks (1996). Kachru (1996) also maintains that “There are now at least four non-native speakers of English for every native speaker”. This would not be wrong to say that English has achieved an utmost victory in the global world because English and globalization has come a long way together which has made English nearly a second language of almost everyone. Kachru (1985) believes that what’s happening is that English indeed is becoming the international language except that now it’s “Englishes”.

At the initial stages, it borrowed from Latin and Celtic then from Scandinavian and French, and recently from other languages spoken in the British colonies. (Burchfield, 1985). Pakistani English is the variety of the language which has its origins in Britain. At the present time the changes in the phonetic, phonological, morphological, semantic and syntactic variation causes the creation of a new variety of language. It has developed its own phonological features which are different from those of Standard British English. The English which is spoken in Pakistan is different from that spoken in other regions of the world, and it is regarded as the unique variety which is called Pakistani English (PE). The phonological rules of the British variety of English are usually used in most of the speeches spoken by Pakistani’s but with the nativized characteristics of its own. Since like other post colonial countries, English in Pakistan interacts with regional languages and is localized in pronunciation. (Rahman,