Search results for "Pidgin" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • can be seen in the example of “pidgin” languages. “Pidgin” is a mixed language that developed to help members of different cultures communicate ...
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  • and Chinese at 2.6 percent. Hawaiian Pidgin is an unofficial language. ... Most Hawaiian citizens speak pidgin, known by linguists as Hawaiian ...
    23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
  • to use it fluently, it is more of a pidgin than a fully formed language ... A pidgin sign language arose among tribes of American Indians in the ...
    22 KB (3,412 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
  • the creole language New Guinea Pidgin ("Tok Pisin"). Much of the debate in the PNG Parliament and many newspapers is conducted in Tok ...
    23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
  • Some residents of Benin could still speak a pidgin Portuguese in the late nineteenth century. The first English expedition to Benin was in 1553 ...
    12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
  • country's largest lingua franca, New Guinea Pidgin. However, there are pockets of Anglicans elsewhere in the country including in the New Guinea ...
    28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
  • British troops, who, mistaking by a personal pidgin in relation with others they had intertwined, derived the well known pronunciation for the Kanien ...
    25 KB (3,874 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
  • * Quelia, a pseudo pidgin of German and Russian. * Russenorsk is an extinct pidgin language with mostly Russian vocabulary ...
    41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
  • dynasty, traders in Fujian also reportedly used pidgin English as a common language. |left|250px|Many famous teas originate from Fujian, including ...
    31 KB (4,464 words) - 07:35, 23 January 2023
  • and French are official languages. Cameroonian Pidgin English is the most common lingua franca, especially in the formerly British-administered territories ...
    36 KB (5,278 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
  • percent, and Chinese at 2.6 percent. Hawaiian Pidgin is an unofficial language. Sixty-eight percent of Hawaiians identify themselves as Christian—42 ...
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  • which meant “quickly quickly” in Chinese Pidgin English. [http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/chopstick Definition of chopstick] Merriam-Webster ...
    24 KB (3,847 words) - 17:19, 10 December 2023
  • perhaps a distinct language, with an Arawakan pidgin often used in communication. Rouse has classified all inhabitants of the Greater Antilles ...
    23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
  • categories that exist in both languages. Pidgin languages are defined by not having any native speakers, but only being spoken by people who ...
    112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
  • as well as in Milne Bay Province, while Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca. Many of the islands, as well as the northern and eastern coasts ...
    29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
  • World War II, Lothar became modernized, lost the pidgin English [he spoke], and his costume changed to a shirt, riding pants, and boots." ...
    28 KB (4,294 words) - 19:00, 25 October 2022
  • socio-economic factors, culture, pidgin language barriers, quality of education, health, racism, lack of positive role-models, exposure to violence ...
    35 KB (5,016 words) - 12:47, 7 February 2023
  • Yauma, Aushi, Lenje, Lamba, Lala, Fanagalo (a pidgin language used mainly used in the South African mines) and others (78 in total). ...
    31 KB (4,520 words) - 05:42, 13 June 2023
  • The Spanish language is predominant, while (pidgin) English is spoken in the Caribbean Islas de la Bahia Department, but nonetheless is slowly ...
    34 KB (4,896 words) - 12:36, 2 February 2024
  • In Germany and some other European countries and in New Guinea Pidgin gasoline is called Benzin (German, Danish, and Turkish), Benzine in Dutch ...
    47 KB (6,957 words) - 11:39, 7 December 2023