Re: Creole vs. Pidgin

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, R. Nierse wrote:

> > Where is Bislama spoken? Because Broken (Torres Strait Creole)
> > has the almost exact same pronoun system. (If you remove the
> > trial and the 'e' in the plural suffix 'pela'.)
>
> Bislama is spoken in Beach la Mar
>
Unless I'm wrong a beach-la-mar is a form of jellyfish.  And if I remember
correctly Bislama is spoken in Vanuatu, formerly known as the New
Hebrides.  Torres Straith Creole obviously belongs to the same continuum
of creole which also includes Solomon Island pijin and and Papua New
Guinean Tok Pisin.

- andrew.
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