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Pidgin/English Dictionary as spoken in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. List compiled by Terry D. Barhorst and Sylvia O'Dell-Barhorst. A a, an - wanpela abandon - lusim abort, have abortion - rausim bel, kilim pikinini long bel about, approximately - samting (round) about (a place) - nabaut (long) above - antap long accelerator - akselareta accident - birua, tupela i bam, bagarap accuse (someone) ...

Aloha and Welcome to Full On Pidgin. We hope you will enjoy all of the NEW features we have added. FULL ON PIDGIN is dedicated to those who want to feel the essence of true Hawaii. Pidgin here in Hawaii is a sort of Hawaiian Slang-lish and not the Pidgin language spoken in the deep south Pacific Islands. A culture lies behind Hawaiian Pidgin. It seems to rub off on those who stay for any length ...

NigeriaExchange Guides More Babawilly Personalities Voices Channels About Nigeria NigeriaExchange Entertainment Business Paging Lifestyles More... Related Information Personalities Babawilly Babawilly's Dictionary of Pidgin English Words and Phrases. Select a Letter 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 Introduction. Pidgin English is spoken widely across Nigeria. It is a language ...

A bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, phrase books and study guides ...

A bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, phrase books and study guides ...

REMUS TALES: SELECTED TEXT Readers of Harris' Uncle Remus folk tales might be tempted to assume, as we were early in our research for this project, that the author had some kind of secret racial egalitarian agenda. Many of the stories he relates through Remus are clearly subversive of American apartheid's hierarchies. They spring from a tradition with roots in Africa, and also in Northern and ...

Speak Jamaican patois: learn to speak & chat Jamaican reggae rasta patois slang and dialect of jamaica and dreadlocks pictures. Jamaican book.

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 ...

A Glossary of Gullah Words taken from The Black Border by Ambrose E. Gonzales 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 ANUDDUH another ANSUH answer, answers, answered, answering Also used for message, especially for one requiring an answer; as: Uh sen' uh ansuh to de gal fuh tell'um uh wan' hab'um fuh wife I sent a message to the girl to tell her ...

Jamaica online takes a humorous but real look at Jamaica and Jamaican culture with recipes guides to patios, reggae, how to be a tourist, Negril, Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Port Antonio, Kingston, Mandeville. ...

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 ...

Jamaica online takes a humorous but real look at Jamaica and Jamaican culture with recipes guides to patios, reggae, how to be a tourist, Negril, Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Port Antonio, Kingston, Mandeville. ...

Grammatische Kategorien und ihre Auspragungen im Tok Pisin von Papua-Neuguinea Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster Institut fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Institute for general linguistics) Proseminar: Von der Notwendigkeit grammatischer Kategorien / Seminar: On the necessity of grammatical categories (1997) Dozent/Lecturer: Hartwig Franke, M.A. Hausarbeit / Homework Grammatical ...

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 ...

Materials for/by Peter L. Patrick. May contain copyright material used for educational purposes. Please respect copyright. Jamaican Creole Texts Peter L. Patrick Here are collected a few texts of various sorts, at various levels of the Jamaican creole continuum. They are in different formats -- some include phonological transcription, gloss and translation, others occur in discourse ...

More than 400 proverbs in Krio from all over Sierra Leone. Transcribed in phonetic up-country Krio. These proverbs were taken from an anonymous work circulated in Freetown in the early 1980s. Part two of the proverb collection, broken up into sections because of its length. By Peter C. Andersen. Two stories, recorded in Sierra Leone and transcribed into phonetic Krio. By Peter C. Andersen. ...

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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 ...

An introduction to a factor that binds a collection of villages into a nation.

A grin without a cat, the funnies page at Chao Mugger, E-Ching's English Literature essay site! Hit me for essays and links on Shakespeare, Jane Eyre, Chaucer, and Jane Austen. More coming up ...

Publications on Bislama Go back to contents This section includes works of a descriptive, comparative or sociolinguistic nature on Bislama, or works relating to Melanesian Pidgin more generally which include substantial treatment of Bislama. Anonymous N.d. Apprenons le bichlamar: petit lexique francais-bichlamar de conversation courante. Vila: Imprimerie Hebridaise. * Issued by the French ...

Pidgin 101 Here are some examples of Pidgin that we use in Hawai`i. Try them out yourself and have some fun! An Den - what happened next, And then . Akamai - Intelligent, smart Brah / bruddah -Similar to Brother or pal in slang. Example: Eh, brah! Broke da mout' -Delicious tasting. Buggah - This could be a guy, girl, or thing. Connotation could be a friend or pest, depending on the tone ...

An annotated bibliography of Rastafarian Speech (Rasta Talk or Dread Talk) ...

The Creole Origins of African American Vernacular English: Evidence from copula absence John R. Rickford Stanford University (In African American English, ed. by Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey and John Baugh. London: Routledge, 1998) (Revised final version: 9/17/97) 8.0 Introduction Two issues loom large in discussions of the development of African American Vernacular English ...

To Pitcairn Island Home Page In 1789, when the HMS Bounty arrived at Tahiti and set to work collecting the breadfruit plantings they were planning to take to the West Indies, they were working shoulder-to-shoulder with the Tahitian people. For six months, these British seamen, most of whom had never been in the South Pacific, were living among the people of the Island, and had to find ways to ...

4.7.1 Western Australian Aboriginal English 1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used: Aboriginal English Black English Pidgin 2. Classification of the language: Identification codes:AIATSIS:(Aboriginal English is listed as Subject 48/3E1) Capell (1963):(not mentioned) Oates (1975):(not mentioned) 3. Dialects of the language: There are varieties of Aboriginal English ...

Tuesday, November 30, 1999 Professahs say no let pidgin boddah you in school UH faculty members say let it be spoken if it works in the learning process By Crystal Kua Star-Bulletin Pidgin and English can co-exist peacefully in Hawaii's schools, and no one should be prevented from using pidgin where it works in the learning process, advised a group consisting primarily of University of Hawaii ...

Pidgin Vs. Rotten English in Soyinka and Saro-Wiwa Jonathan R. Greenberg '94 (English 32 1990) Twenty years ago, at Ibadan University, I wrote a story titled High Life and showed it to one of my teachers, Mr. O.R. Dathorne. He read it; just possibly liked it, but he did say that while the style I had used might be successful in a short story, he doubted that it could be sustained in a novel. I ...

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Bislama Bislama is English-lexifier (based) Pidgin in spoken in Vanuatu. It shares a common ancestry with other Pidgins spoken in the South-Western Pacific, most notably, Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea) and Pijin (Solomon Islands). Bislama has the official status of Vanuatu's National Language. English and French, the languages of the former colonial rule, are recognised as the Nation's Official ...

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Lexicography Considerations for Tok Pisin, by Karl J. Franklin ...

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Last modified 6 April 2001 Some Australian Pidgin samples Return to Australian languages page Some references Koch, Harold. 2000. Central Australian Aboriginal English: in comparison with the morphosyntactic categories of Kaytetye. Asian Englishes 3.2, 32-58. (An international journal of the sociolinguistics of English in Asia/Pacific, Tokyo) Simpson, Jane. 2000. Camels as pidgin carriers, in ...

Sybille Gundert i tekem long tep long 1982) Vilej blong Unakap, Aelan blong Nguna, Not Efate Wan sip i bin go long Nguna mo hem i tekem olgeta ol olfala blong Jif Toni Takai i go wok long plantesen blong sugaken long Kwinslan. S. G.: Ol man ples ia oli go wok hamas yia long Kwinslan Jif Toni Takai: Oli go wok blong sikis manis mo samfala blong wan yia. S. G.: Wanem nao oli karem bak wetem ...

United Nations session hears Gullah language, plea FROM STAFF REPORTS ST. HELENA ISLAND --Marquetta L. Goodwine has long been the center of attention in the Lowcountry. Performing her plays and giving lectures about the Gullah culture garnered her that. But this was different. When she spoke, people from Africa, North America and Europe listened. Goodwine spoke to the United Nations' 55th ...

Pidgin is a local language with strong ties to specific places and groups of people but it can make no claim to purity or authenticity. It is corrupt. It is fragmented. It is make-shift and informal. ...

Pidgin and Education a position paper by Da Pidgin Coup University of Hawai`i November 1999 CONTENTS 1. Summary 2. Introduction and Outline of Paper 3. What is Pidgin 4. History of Attitudes towards Pidgin 5. Is Standard English the Best Language 6. Pidgin at School 7. Speaking is Different from Writing 8. Pijin nat Ingglish 9. Pidgin and Testing 10. Conclusion and Recommendations (c) Da ...

Some pidgin sayings and their translations by Gaga Ekeh See am as e siddon. No face! Everywhere tinted! Translation: Observe as the subject sits. One cannot but notice the frown occupying the face. Neither can one ignore those dark glasses. As im enta for man eye, I jus tux. Because why Na so so baffs im throway comot. Translation: As the subject proceeded to occupy my peripheral vision, I had ...

Language Development in Papua New Guinea, by Robert Litteral ...

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Linguistics 204 Handouts Structural Differences between Hawaiian Creole English and English Child Language Compared to Creoles Japanese Politeness Structural Differences between Hawaiian Creole English and English English Hawaiian Creole English The two of us had a hard time raising dogs. Us two bin get hard time raising dog. John and his friends are stealing the food. John-them stay cockroach ...

In the Hawaiian Islands, there were different languages on each island. Then King Kamehameha III united the islands as one territory with a common language called Hawaiian. Over periods of time, merchants from different countries visited Hawaii, bringing their own language. This began with the English language. American merchants returning from China would stop in Hawaii, and some of the Chinese ...

MANGLISH (Malaysian English) : A guide for the Uninformed... What we say What we mean Why are you so boring Why you so boring Why are you so bored I am interesting. I got interest lah. I am interested. I will send you to the airport. I will take you to the airport. Follow me! (and walks to his own car) Follow me in your own car. I follow your car. I will follow (go with) you in your car. You ...

Mai PNG, is an infomational site about Papua New Guinea, with facts, links, chat forums and pictures all P.N.G. related. In the future we hope to be the best most visited PNG site on the net. Tenkyu Tru.

HAWAI'I CREOLE ENGLISH ( PIDGIN, Hawai'i Pidgin English ) Spoken in Hawaii by half of the state population. U.S.A. God, you our Fadda. You stay in da sky. We like all da peopo know fo shua how you stay, an dat you good an spesho inside, an we like dem give you plenny respeck. We like you come king ova hea now. We like everybody make jalike you like, ova hea inside da world, jalike da angel guys ...

LANGUAGE SAMPLES FROM PIDGIN SPEAKERS WHOSE FIRST LANGUAGE IS JAPANESE 1 FJ66K ada vaekyum klina no kaen yuz Can't you use the other vacuum cleaner MJ77K daet taim sevnti-wan-go-taim eirplein, ye, japaen go. That time, when (we) went in `71, (we) went to Japan by plane FJ66K da rich pipol dakain it da rais, da pua pipl awl poteto it. The rich kind of people (in Okinawa) eat rice while the poor ...

Hawai'i Creole English Some Grammatical Features of HCE Note: HCE has its own spelling system. The examples here are given in that system and then in English-based spelling. 1. Basic sentences Sentences giving a location use the word ste (stay): Da kaet ste in da haus. (Da cat stay in da house.) 'The cat's in the house.' The word get is used for 'there is/are': Get tu mach turis naudeiz. (Get ...

KRIO ( Creole ) Spoken in Sierra Leone and Gambia. Sierra Leone - Gambia Source: A Panorama of Indo-European Languages by W.B. Lockwood, M.A., D. Litt. - London 1972 Contributed by Harold Lush - E-mail rom@netnitco.net Another version Papa God we de na evin mek olman respekt yu oli nem mek yu rul kam mek wetin yu want bi na dis wol leke aw i de bi na evin duya, gi wi wetin fo it tide padin wi fo ...

Go back The Labbit and the Lulian There was a beauty paegant and Miss USA, Miss UK and Miss S'pore were finalists. The host asked them the first question, name an animal which starts with L... Miss USA said lion, Miss UK said llama, and Miss S'pore said... labbit.. And then the host asked Okay, now name a fruit which sarts with L Miss USA said lemon, Miss UK said lime and Miss S'pore went A-ha!!

SRANAN ( Sranan-Tongo, Taki-Taki, Surinaams, Surinamese, Surinam Creole English ) Spoken in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Also in the Netherlands. Suriname - Netherlands Antilles - Netherlands Source: A Panorama of Indo-European Languages by W.B. Lockwood, M.A., D. Litt., London, 1972 Contributed by Harold Lush - E-mail rom@netnitco.net Another version wi tata wi tata, di de n'ini hemel ...