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Britano-Cantonese pidgin (wasRe: Auxlangs in conworlds, was Re: The Great Sundering)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Saturday, November 29, 2003, 7:54
Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> wrote:

>> Some of this material has >> even made it into mainstream [IB] natural languages: >> moainey is Kerno and roughly means "shop" or >> "buy". It is heard frequently enough in >> Chinatown, where Cantonese hawkers call out may >> nei! = you buy it! I'm sure there is a sort of >> Britano-Cantonese pidgin right there in the heart >> of Dûnein. > >A Britano-Cantonese pidgin! Certainly amusing to sort out!
Take a websurfin' look-see at China Coast Pidgin English (CCPE) and _Ham Soi_/Nauruan Pidgin English. I haven't done any recent websearches in like a half a year, so... web sites | provided by Google Results 1-3 of about 4 <html> <head> </head><body><pre><html> <head> </ ... ... MNN MNONG, SOUTHERN MNO MOKILESE MNP CHINESE, MIN BEI MNQ ... PCK CHIN, PAITE PCL PARDHI PCM PIDGIN, NIGERIAN PCN ... SAV SAFEN SAW SAWI SAX SAMAN?ENGLISH SAY SAYA ... http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/langs.txt - Cached Language codes for Ethnologue, 12th ed., 1992 ... MAPENA MNN MNONG, SOUTHERN MNO MOKIL MNP CHINESE, MIN PEI ... PCK CHIN, PAITE PCL PARDHI PCM PIDGIN, NIGERIAN PCN ... SAV SAFEN SAW SAWI SAX SAMANA ENGLISH SAY SAYA ... http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/eagles/ethn12.html - Cached Ruhlen: Classification and List of Languages of the World ... NA-DENE AMERIND OTHER (LANGUAGE ISOLATES, UNCLASSIFIED, PIDGINS AND CREOLES ... NORTH SEA [2]: Frisian, English 2.9. ... 8+1]: 1.2.0. [0+1]: +Archaic Chinese 1.2.1. MIN ... http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/stampe/Linguistics/Ruhlen/ruhlen.html - Cached --- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* --- Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang) http://www.boheme-magazine.net Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode, orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap... "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" - title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter, _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_ = ¡gw3rraa leg0set kaakaa! ¡riis3rvaa, saaIlvaa, riikuu, sk0paa-g0mii aen riizijkl0! = [Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!]