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Basic information about the Kreyol language of Haiti.

SUL Linguistics home Pidgin and Creole Languages A Guide to Green Library collections Contents I. Introduction II. Getting Started III. Classification and Subject Headings IV. Overviews and Introductions V. Theories, Problems, Controversies VI. Bibliographies & Indexes/Abstracts VII. Theses VIII. Maps, Catalogs, Checklists IX. Periodicals and Newsletters X. Monographic Series XI. Dictionaries ...

A Glossary of Lingua Franca -- Introduction A Dead Language What is Lingua Franca Lingua Franca is a pidgin, a trade language used by numerous language communities around the Mediterranean, to communicate with others whose language they did not speak. It is, in fact, the mother of all pidgins, seemingly in use since the Middle Ages and surviving until the nineteenth century, when it disappeared ...

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 ...

The brogue that isn't J.C.Wells, University College London Introduction We have all heard of the remote community in the Appalachians (or is it somewhere in the North of England ) where the locals still supposedly speak pure Elizabethan English, unchanged for centuries. But this is not the only dialectological myth which persists tenaciously in the popular imagination and will no doubt continue ...

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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 ...

Creole Romance Numerals | Balto-Slavic | Celtic | Germanic | Hellenic | Indo-Iranian | Italic | Other IndoEuropean | | Northern Italian | Central Italian | Southern Italian | French | Spanish | Portuguese | Ladin | Rumauntsch | Occitan | Franco-Provencal | Occitan and Franco-Provencal In Italy | Sardinian | Friulan / Vegliot | Rumanian | Creole Romance | French Creoles: Cajun Creole Trinidadian ...

Next: Sociolinguistic Factors Up: No Title Previous: No Title Pidgin and Creole Languages Originally thought of as incomplete, broken, corrupt, not worthy of serious attention. Pidgins still are marginal: in origin (makeshift, reduced in structure), in attitudes toward them (low prestige); in our knowledge of them. Some quick definitions: Pidgin language (origin in Engl. word `business' ) is ...

Vol. 3. No. 1 A-2 November 1997 Return to Table of Contents Return to Main Page english or English Attitudes, Local Varieties and English Language Teaching John Norrish Languages in Education Institute of Education, University of London j.norrish@ioe.ac.uk Abstract This article discusses the issues surrounding the phenomenon of Local (or Nativised ) Varieties of English, those developments ...

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Archives of CREOLIST ` N.B.: This is a Mirror of the CREOLIST List at CREOLIST@LING.SU.SE, whose archives are at http://www.ling.su.se/Creole/. It exists only to provide a web-searchable archive of the material posted there. If you wish to subscribe to it, you can do so here. The CreoLIST Mailing List (Mirror) Search the archives Manage the list (list owners only) July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 ...

Germanic Creoles Numerals | Balto-Slavic | Celtic | Germanic | Hellenic | Indo-Iranian | Italic | Other IndoEuropean | | English | Scots | Frisian | North Frisian | Dutch | Low German | High German | Upper German | Scandinavian | Germanic Creoles | Pidgins and Creoles of the Caribbean and Americas: Jamaican Creole Neo Solomonic Hawaiian Japanese Pidgin Early Hawaiian Creole 1 wan w n wan wan wan ...

Trinidadians are a special people of dat there is no doubt, Doh care what odders say of how dey run dey mouth. But of all de special talents dat we Trinis possess, Is de way we talk dat ranks us among de best. At de street corners, in de shop or at work on any given day, Is to hear us speak and carry on in our own special way. De colourful words, de antics and de accent all combine, To create a ...

Excerpts from The King James Bible translated into Haitian Creole or Kreyol Ayisyen ...

Kreyol The Language of Haiti A/ B/ C/ D/ E/ F/ G/ H/ I/ J/ K/ L/ M/ N/ O/ P/ Q/ R/ S/ T/ U/ V/ W/ X/ Y/ Z/ A a, an / youn aback / pa sipriz abandon / abandone, kite abase / abese, diminye abash / demoralize abbreviate / abreje abdicate / abdike abduct / kidnape, anlve abet / ensite, eksite abhor / deteste, rayi abide / respekte ability / abilite, aptitud abject / abj k, degoutan able / kapab ...

Pidgin Genesis in Optimality Theory1 Joan Bresnan Stanford University Proceedings of the LFG98 Conference The University of Queensland, Brisbane Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (Editors) 1998 CSLI Publications http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/ Pronouns in pidgins Pidgins arise in certain contact situations as a conventionalized means of communication between groups of adult speakers ...

PREFECTURE AREA MARTINIQUE Internet site of Prefecture and theservices of the state in Martinique area. The objective of this siteis to bring the administration closer to the users.

Creole Kreol Kreyol Guadeloupe Martinique Gedehon Antilles Guyane Reunion FWI Caraibe Caraibes ...

CONTACT LANGUAGES IN THE BANTU AREA Salikoko S. Mufwene University of Chicago 1. INTRODUCTION It is possible to interpret the phrase contact language synonymously with lingua franca, viz., as that variety that enables two or more (groups of) individuals speaking different vernaculars to communicate when they come in contact with each other. The fact that, consistent with its title, Status and ...

Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism edited by Ana Roca and John B. Jensen Contents | Introduction | Review excerpt | Order form Introduction The Spanish language, with an estimated 300 million native speakers worldwide, comes in contact with many other languages. These range from countless indigenous tongues in Latin America, to Portuguese in Europe and South America, to Basque, Catalan, ...

Welcome to GUADELOUPE EXPLICATION BRIEF PRESENTATION OF MY ISLAND Architecture Art History Tradition This site aims at discovering GUADELOUPE to you.You will virtually surf on the different site in offer and you wil get introduced to or improve your knowledge of my island.The small animal on the left is GUADELOUPE emblem, it's callled a racoon or racoun in creole and on the right, the highest ...

Tex-Mex language adds touch of spice to linguistic debate Ebonics isn't the only dialect in the spotlight SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Trinity University Professor Scott Baird believes Tex-Mex, the blend of Spanish and English spoken in South Texas, is evolving into a distinct language. He unearthed his proof in an unexpected locale: the graveyard. This unique premise is disputed by some of his fellow ...

PIDGIN and CREOLE Background Information This page was designed for a psycholinguistics class project at the University of Oregon. The goal is to get information about some creole and pidgin languages, look at some history of particular languages, and tie them into a main theme. Grammar and innateness in relation to the topics will be looked at. Definitions Pidgin and creole are languages that ...

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Basic information about the Kreyol language of Martinique.