ABSTRACT
The major native-speaker varieties of English are those that have already discussed: the forms of English spoken in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Caribbean. There are, however, many other places in the world where there are long-established communities of native English speakers. Lesser Antilles of the eastern Caribbean contain a number of communities of white English speakers. These communities are in many cases the direct cultural and linguistic descendants of immigrants from the British Isles and thus speakers of an English which, although clearly Caribbean in character, may in some respects show differences from that of black West Indians. Many of the English who arrived later in the 1650s were prisoners of the English Civil War or transported criminals. In Kenya, large-scale settlement by English speakers began in 1901, with many anglophones coming from South Africa as well as from Britain.
