Basic information about the Kreyol language of Haiti.

CC: Pidgin Carriers (19 July 1998) When two groups of humans who don't share a language come together, they generally try to communicate. Often, the result is a pidgin a simplified language that combines features of the groups' languages while leaving out the more difficult parts, allowing the groups to speak to each other. This sort of lingua franca is often used to conduct trade. (The word ...

Numbers in Pidgins, Creoles, and Constructed Languages Pidgins and Creoles Arabic-based Turku way tinen talata arba kamza site saba tamani tise ashara Nubi wai tinin talata arba khamsa sita saba tamanya tisa ashara Motu-based Hiri Motu ta rua toi hani ima tauratoi (sikisi) hitu taurahani (et) taurahani-ta gwauta Zulu-based Fanagalo wan tu tri fo fayif sikis seven eyit nayin ten Naga-based Naga ...

PIDGINS AND CREOLES INTRODUCTION Can you guess what language this is These lines are taken from a famous comic strip in Papua New Guinea: Sapos yu kaikai planti pinat, bai yu kamap strong olsem phantom. Fantom, yu pren tru bilong mi. Inap yu ken helpim mi nau Fantom, em i go we Translation: 'If you eat plenty of peanuts, you will come up strong like the phantom.' 'Phantom, you are a true ...

4.7 Post-contact languages of Western Australia Western Australian Aboriginal English Kriol Introduction This section deals with languages that have developed in Western Australia since the arrival of non-Aboriginal people. Whenever a group of people take over another group's land it is likely that a new language will develop. This happened when the French invaded Britain in the eleventh ...