Full Article Of The Emergence of an “Intersecting Circle” in Kachru’s Three Concentric Circles of World Englishes: A Case of Ethno-linguistic Neutrality in Central Nigeria

There is evidence that contemporary Nigeria is drifting towards a society of monolingual English users a component of which could be defined as lacking in ethnolinguistic identity This trend is found among a generation of young Nigerian urban dwellers between the age bracket of 12 and 25 who can neither communicate in their parents native languages nor indeed in any other Nigerian indigenous language their only medium of communication is English Although