melanesian pidgin and second language acquisition
... grown up as childhood speakers of the developing pidgin. It is these fluent speakers who served as linguistic brokers, communicating with fellow Islanders and with Europeans, and mediating interlingual encounters. When the Labor Trade began, they played an expanding role in recruiting Islanders from ...
... grown up as childhood speakers of the developing pidgin. It is these fluent speakers who served as linguistic brokers, communicating with fellow Islanders and with Europeans, and mediating interlingual encounters. When the Labor Trade began, they played an expanding role in recruiting Islanders from ...
Creolization in Anthropological Theory and in Mauritius
... influence among the ethnic groups that make up the Mauritian population, as well as cultural influence from the outside world—not merely from the West but also from India and East Asia. In spite of obvious cultural creolization evident throughout Mauritian society, it is chiefly the Mauritians of Af ...
... influence among the ethnic groups that make up the Mauritian population, as well as cultural influence from the outside world—not merely from the West but also from India and East Asia. In spite of obvious cultural creolization evident throughout Mauritian society, it is chiefly the Mauritians of Af ...
Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory
... weaknesses in that he seems to be arguing that creole equals assimilation via language, but may be useful in broader creolization discourse in that he illustrates the locational specificity of creolization, diminishing arguments that creolization is a global process. Mary Gallagher, a Franco-phone s ...
... weaknesses in that he seems to be arguing that creole equals assimilation via language, but may be useful in broader creolization discourse in that he illustrates the locational specificity of creolization, diminishing arguments that creolization is a global process. Mary Gallagher, a Franco-phone s ...
Creole language
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that has developed from a pidgin (i.e. a simplified language or simplified mixture of languages used by non-native speakers) becoming nativized by children as their first language, with the accompanying effect of a fully developed vocabulary and system of grammar.The precise number of creoles is not known, particularly as these are poorly attested, but about one hundred creole languages have arisen since 1500, predominantly based on European languages, due to the Age of Discovery and the Atlantic slave trade, though there are creoles based on other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, and Malay. The creole with the largest number of speakers is Haitian Creole, with about ten million native speakers.The lexicon of a creole language is largely supplied by the parent languages, particularly that of the most dominant group in the social context of the creole's construction, though there are often clear phonetic and semantic shifts. On the other hand, the grammar often has original features that may differ substantially from those of the parent languages.