Creoles of the World
English around the World - Internet + English = Netglish
Definitions of Various Creoles
Creole - Kreyol Alphabet Alphabè Kreyòl la The Kreyol Alphabet
AMERICAN DIALECTS
- Links related to American Dialects
- Stanford University Library's Reference Guide for Pidgin and Creole
- Phonetic fonts can be downloaded for free from the SIL
- Search Stanford Library
- Appendix: Glossary of Languages
An appendix to the above containing alternative names of various pidgins and Creoles.
LOUISIANA CREOLE
- Learn about Louisiana Creole
- See Issues and Opinions for cultural history.
- THE DICTIONARY OF LOUISIANA CREOLE:
Edited by Albert Valdman, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall, and Kevin J. Rottet.
HAWAIIAN PIDGIN CREOLE
- HAWAIIAN PIDGIN/CREOLE The People, Culture and Language of Hawai’i Learn a little about consonants and vowels in Hawaiian Pidgin.
- Hawaiian War Chant - also see
- Ha Kam Wi Tawk Pidgin Yet ['Why do we still talk in Pidgin']: A series of three clips about Hawai‘i Creole ('Pidgin') made by High School Students. [link]
HAITIAN CREOLE
- What is Haitian Creole?
- HAITI ONLINE - The premier online source of Haitian News.
- WINDOWS ON HAITI - Promotes Haitian Creole Literacy and Literature production.
- KREYOL DICTIONARY A - Z THE LANGUAGE OF HAITI
- The Unofficial Haitian Home Page
resources include Haitian Directories, Culture & Arts, Music, and a complete Haitian History Course.
Bermudian English Creole
- The Bermewjun dictionary
- Southern Bahamian: Transported African American Vernacular English or Transported Gullah? (Stephanie Hackert and John Holm) published in vol. 15 (2009) of The College of the Bahamas Research Journal, pp. 12-21
Holm argued (wrongly) in the 1990s that proof of AAVE's creole origins lay in the creole speech of the southern Bahamian islands, populated almost entirely from the US mainland after the American Revolutionary War. It has since come to light that most of the immigrants came from Gullah-speaking areas of the US, suggesting that AAVE was from its beginnings the product of partial rather than full creolization.
Jamaican Creole
Development of the Jamaican Language
Sources of language influence on Jamaican Creole Source of Jamaican population, 1500 - 1700 [more]
Trinidad Creole
English English
Spanish Based Creole
- Papiamento A creole based on Portuguese and pidginized Spanish and spoken in the Netherlands Antilles.
- Chabacano/Spanish The Philippine Linguistic Identity.
John Lipski Professor of Spanish and Linguistics. His main areas of research include Spanish phonology, language contacts, Spanish dialectology, creole languages, and the African contribution to Spanish and Portuguese. He is the author of numerous books and articles in these fields, and has recently completed a book on varieties of Spanish in the United States.
See Filipino American National Historical Society's Pinoy Archives and the Filipino AmericanLibrary - St. Lucia
St. Lucia, West Indies is a creolophone island of the lesser Antilles. This E-Group is concerned by the preservation of the creole culture in this country.
Haitian Creole
- Expert Jeff Allen - Haitian Creole Language Technologies - Language Data Distribution
- Multilingual Translation System All citizens, regardless of native tongue, shall have the same access to knowledge on the Internet.
French Creole
- A Dual Approach to French Creole Genesis
by Mikael Parkvall M. A. Thesis, presented in April 1995 at the Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University. French-lexicon creoles of the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean (minus Réunionnais) were the result not of one, and not of several, but of two geneses, one on St. Kitts and one in Senegal.The varieties presently spoken on the Lesser Antilles would be descended from the former, and those spoken in the Indian Ocean and in Louisiana would be derived from the latter. I suggested that Haitian and Guianese would be of the Kittitian type, but with certain influences from the Senegalese proto-pidgin.
Future in Nova Scotian Black English
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"While English is the language of choice on the Internet, it will hasten the extinction of thousands of indigenous languages. By the end of this century, 90 percent of the world's language could become extinct. The culture, customs and knowledge embedded in these languages will also become extinct. As we embrace the languages of former colonial masters, the world losses valuable information passed down by word of mouth over several generations. The extinction of any language is an irretrievable loss to humanity. If the early years of educational instruction are not in an indigenous language, then that language is headed for extinction."
Author: Kofi Yakpo Dissertation Title: A Grammar of Pichi
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Subject Language(s): Fernando Po Creole English (fpe)
Language Family(ies): Creole
Dissertation Abstract: Pichi (also know as Fernando Po Creole English) is an Atlantic English-lexicon Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea.
With at least 70,000 speakers, Pichi is an offshoot of Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with its West African sister languages Aku (Gambia) and Nigerian, Cameroonian and Ghanaian Pidgin. At the same time,
contact with Spanish, the colonial and official language of Equatorial Guinea, has made a significant impact on the lexicon and grammar of Pichi.
This first comprehensive description of Pichi is based on extensive fieldwork in Equatorial Guinea. It presents a detailed analysis of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language and addresses language contact between Pichi and Spanish. The annexes contain a collection of interlinearised and annotated texts as well as Pichi-English-Pichi vocabulary lists.
Pichi has a seven vowel system and twenty-two consonant phonemes. The
language features a mixed prosodic system which employs both pitch-accent and tone. The morphological structure of Pichi is largely isolating. However, there is a limited use of inflectional and derivational morphology in which affixation, tone and suppletive forms are put to use. The categories of tense, modality and aspect are primarily expressed through preverbal particles. In Pichi, aspect rather than tense, plays a dominant role in expressing temporal relations. The modal system includes an indicative-subjunctive opposition. Pichi verbs fall into three lexical aspect classes: dynamic, inchoative-stative and stative. The language exhibits a subject-verb word order in intransitive clauses and a subject-verb-object order in transitive clauses. Pichi also features various types of multiverb constructions. These include secondary predication, clause chaining and serial verb constructions.