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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...