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Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian language comprises four related English-derived languages of Melanesia:
Bislama, of Vanuatu
Solomon Islands Pidgin
Tok Pisin, of Papua New Guinea
Torres Strait Creole, of the Torres Strait Islands and parts of Cape York
These languages are linked to workers from these places working on plantations in the Australian state of Queensland. Torres Strait Creole is the least closely related of the four.
MelanesianPidgin or Neo-Melanesian language comprises four related English-derived languages of Melanesia: Bislama, of Vanuatu Solomon Islands Pidgin...
traditionally been treated as varieties of a single MelanesianPidgin English or "Neo-Melanesian" language. The flourishing of the mainly English-based...
Nauruan Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin spoken in Nauru. It appears to be the result of a merger of Chinese-type and Melanesian-type pidgins (see...
island province of Papua New Guinea; in a number of the songs he uses Melanesianpidgin, the language used in Bougainville and elsewhere. "Little buggers"...
borrowed as pikin for 'small' and 'child'. The term pikinini is found in Melanesianpidgin and creole languages such as Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea or Bislama...
trade period. The (Kanaka) pidgin language was used on the plantations and became the lingua franca spoken between Melanesian workers (the Kanakas, as they...
Roman Catholic 19.6% Other Christian 2.9% Other 4% Unspecified 0.1% MelanesianPidgin (lingua franca) English (official) (spoken by only 1–2% of the population)...
Micronesian Pidgin is an English-based pidgin language spoken in nineteenth-century Micronesia. It may have been related to MelanesianPidgin English, due...
country is Tok Pisin (commonly known in English as New Guinean Pidgin or MelanesianPidgin), in which much of the debate in Parliament is conducted, many...
the Lifu Mission, London: James Nisbet & Co. Keesing, Roger (1988), MelanesianPidgin and the Oceanic Substrate, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-1450-9...
www.fsmlaw.org. Retrieved May 3, 2023. Keesing, Roger M. (1988). MelanesianPidgin and the oceanic substrate. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press...
localised pidgin was formed, combining English vocabulary with grammatical structures typical of languages in the region. This early plantation pidgin is the...
Kwaio Religion. Columbia University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-231-05341-X. MelanesianPidgin and the Oceanic Substrate. Stanford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-8047-1450-9...
In linguistics, Melanesian is an obsolete term referring to the Austronesian languages of Melanesia: that is, the Oceanic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, or...
Kaberry, Phyllis M.; Reed, Stephen W.; Whiting, John W.M. (1943). MelanesianPidgin English: Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary. Special Publications of the Linguistic...
comprising approximately ten percent of all languages on Earth. ^ b: Melanesianpidgin is lingua franca in much of the country, but English remains the official...
Papuan Pidgin English was a 19th-century English-based pidgin of New Guinea. It was eventually replaced by Hiri Motu, a Melanesian-based pidgin, and was...
transformations are very similar to what is seen in other Creole languages like MelanesianPidgin English and Jamaican English Creole. The preponderance of the palatal...
Papua. Despite the small number of speakers, it is the basis of a local pidgin. It has 18 consonants and 5 vowels. Onin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
in a very compact area. In addition to the many indigenous Melanesian languages, pidgins and creole languages have developed from trade and cultural...
W. M. Verhaar (1990-01-01). MelanesianPidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia. John...
Dallas: SIL International. Laycock, Don (1973). "Sissano Warapu and MelanesianPidginization". Oceanic Linguistics. 12 (1/2). University of Hawai'i Press: 245–277...
Canefields English or Queensland Plantation Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by Melanesian labourers in Queensland, Australia...
Anglo-Melanesian language whose lexical basis is essentially English. This language allowed them to communicate with shopkeepers or with other Melanesian populations...
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