Everthing you wanted to know about Vanuatu but were afraid to ask.

Pidgin/English Dictionary
www.june29.com/HLP/lang/pidgin.html

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, ...

Cameroon Pidgin English New Testament. By Rev. Ekoka A. Molindo. The Holy Bible. Forward. About The Author. THE GOSPEL OF St. JOHN. John Chapter 1. John...

Nigerian Pidgin English 1) Wey my room dey? 2) Wey de beach dey? 3) Wey de bar dey? 4) Make una no touch me there o! The Four Essential Travel Phrases home pag

KENT BOWMAN "Pidgin English Children's Stories" Goldilocks and the Three Bears Rumplestiltskin Three Little Pigs Little Lei (Red Riding Hood) Cinderella Keaka and the Beanstalk For immediate purchase of this item only. To continue browsing, use..

A Web of On-line Dictionaries
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html

The Web's most comprehensive index of on-line dictionaries with 800 dictionaries in more than 175 different languages. This conveniently organized index includes glossaries of specialized terminology and other vocabulary aids. It includes an in

Neo-Melanesian-English Concise Dictionary; New Guin ...
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Neo-Melanesian-English Concise Dictionary; New Guinea Pidgin-English Language by Steinbauer, Friedrich ISBN: 0781806569; Softcover; Hippocrene Books

The Home of the Lying Cow
www.clark.net/pub/kiaman/lyingcow.html

In the Melanesian Pidgin dialect spoken in the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu, the word "kiaman" means roughly "falsehood" or "lie." The "k" is normally pronounced much like a "g," and the "ia" portion of the word is pronounced as "ya." The sound of the whole word is something like "gyahmahn" (lightly accented on the first syllable), reflecting its probable derivation from the old English...

Author resurrects Pidgin English
www.thedaily.washington.edu/archives/1996_Winter/February1 1996/Pidgin.html

Thursday February 1, 1996 The University of Washington Student Newspaper JC Conklin Daily Staff Author Lois-Ann Yamanaka is fighting to establish Pidgin English as a legitimate language.

Bradley University's Hawaii Club "Da word of da week.." FUT (Just like you see it)-- Definition(haole) -(verb)- the passing of gas Definition(local)-(verb)- Examples: - "Greg! No make da kine fut! Da wahines no like.." Picture: Any questions or..

Language Varieties Network
www2.hawaii.edu/~gavinm/home.htm

The purposes of this network are: to provide a forum for dialogue about variant-language issues in education, to provide a network of information about pidgins, creoles, and other stigmatized varieties,

Language Family: Pidgin. Part of _Ethnologue Language Family Index_; Joseph E. Grimes and Barbara F. Grimes, Editors; Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996.

Resource guides for Lowlands languages: Pidgins & Creoles

West African Pidgin English West African Pidgin English (WAPE) is a cover term for several related pidgins spoken over a wide area of West Africa including Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Benin and Cameroon.

A Brief History of Pidgin
www.aloha.net/~als1/histpidgin.html

A Brief History of Pidgin: Pidgin or Pidgin English evolved through the interaction of immigrants of many races and cultures who migrated to Hawaii to work on the Sugar Plantations.

Warning
www.aloha.net/~als1/next.html

This Site contains Pidgin English. Many of my friends told me not to or why do I use Pidgin English (Pidgin or broken English) in my web site. They strongly encouraged me to remove the Pidgin phrases because it made me sound unintelligent.

Below is an annotated bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, phrase books, and study guides. If you know of others please let me know.

Pidgin English, is a way of communicating among the locals as well as non locals who have lived here for a long time. It is hard to define just exactly what Pidgin English is, but to make it as simple as possible, basically we have borrowed words from every culture that exists here, (including English) and either adopted them or broken them to form one common language

Can you guess what language this is? These lines are taken from a famous comic strip in Papua New Guinea: "Sapos yu kaikai planti pinat, bai yu kamap strong olsem phantom." "Fantom, yu pren tru bilong mi.

Languages of Puerto Rico. Part of _Ethnologue: Languages of the World_, 13th Edition; Barbara F. Grimes, Editor; Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996.

A Short Story in Pidgin English Howzit! Mahalo's fo' visiting my home page li'dat. I stay 37 years old. My friends know who me. Small kid time, I was living in Nalo. Den I wen go live in town afta I wen grad from high school. Da las place I wen..

Mo`olelo Pokole (Short Stories) Featured here a few anecdotes from growing up in Hawai`i and the current scene in Hawai`i. I hope you enjoy them.

Robert Eklund's Tok Pisin Literature Page.

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".

Adapted from the Hawaii best seller of all time - Pidgin to da Max - this site is a humorous look at street talk - local style.

Go back to contentsThis 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. [The spelling Bichelamar occurs in many French references to the language.] Anonymous N.d.