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ABSTRACT
This project examines Ijaw variety of Nigerian English used among educated speakers of English who speak Ijaw as their L1. The goal of this study is to describe the sound pattern of the words that were produced by the educated Ijaw speaker. The study accounts for the features which guides a definition of the sound features of the Ijaw variety of Nigerian English. This research will help in providing data for academic reference and contribute an insight into the Ijaw variety of English. The data for this study was collected orally from a 65 year old educated Ijaw speaker, using the Ibadan 400 word list. The speech collected for the data was recorded in .wav format. In the course of data analysis which was carried out in chapter 4, Dixon’s Basic Linguistic Theory was adopted for the analysis of the data, in the perspective of New Englishes. From the findings of the work made by the researcher, it can be seen that the Ijaw variety of English constitutes 7 simple vowels and 21 consonants. It was concluded that the variety of English produced by the Ijaw speaker is an indicative of an Ijaw variety of English.
