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Internet + English = Netglish
English around the World
Definitions of Various Creoles
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.
THE DICTIONARY OF LOUISIANA CREOLE:
Edited by Albert Valdman, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall, and Kevin J. Rottet.
- Learn about Louisiana Creole
- See Issues and Opinions for cultural history.
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
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. - Haitian language and culture
North American Indian & Indigenous People
- First People's Language Resources
- Second URL for the People's Paths the original Cherokee version
- An English version
- TEACHING / STUDY AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES
Bermudian English
Development of the Jamaican Language
Sources of language influence on Jamaican Creole Source of Jamaican population, 1500 - 1700
English English
- The Routes of English (BBC programme)
- National Sound Archive
- Estuary English
- English and Japanese English as a legitimate variety
PHILLIPPINE CREOLE
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
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.
Papiamento A creole based on Portuguese and pidginized Spanish and spoken in the Netherlands Antilles.
Future in Nova Scotian Black English
Global Internet Statistics (by Language) lists many languages, how many people speak each language, how many people who speak that language have internet access, the GDP (gross domestic product) per capita for each language ... "We classify by languages instead of by countries, since people speaking the same language form their own online community no matter what country they happen to live in.""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."
