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Pidgins and creoles (was: Sign language)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, September 14, 1998, 16:03
Pablo Flores wrote:

> There was a section about pidgins and creoles too. They only talked about _the_ > Creole, in the Caribbean region. Does anybody have a list of creoles, or links > to pages about them?
See http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/families/Creole.html , which lists 66 Creole languages grouped by the base language: Afrikaans, Arabic, Assamese, Cree, Dutch, English, French, German, Kongo, Malay, Ngbandi, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Teton. Also see http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/families/Pidgin.html , which lists 11 Pidgin languages based on English, French, Hausa, Malay, Mascoian, Motu, Swahili, and Zulu, plus mixed Amerindian languages. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)