Re: Das Chinesische Pidgin Englisch _Ham Soi_

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Jonathan Chang wrote:

>     I have been researching Chinese Pidgin English (China Coast Pidgin
> English) recently.
>     I have found information leading me to the fact that it is still spoken
> and possibly even written bilingually on the island of Nauru and that the
> locals there call it _Ham Soi_<<Seawater language>>.
>     I have done several websearches but I can't seem to get anywhere very
> well (*$#@ing aol browser!!!)
>
>     I have found only one major book citation:
>
>     _Das Chinesische Pidgin Englisch_  by W. Bisang. University of Amsterdam:
>         Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1985.
>
>     I then went to Amazon.com.   *_^   .....    _nada_...  =(
>
>     I am keenly interested in obtaining assistance in  acquiring more
> information and any _Ham Soi_ materials (especially any phrasebooks,
> dictionaries, wordlists).
>     AiYaH!!!, I even would like to get the Bisang book, la. (If I have
> problems reading the Dutch fluently, I could always get an assist from my
> Dutch-educated Indonesian relatives & certain wonderful conlangers on this
> list  ; )
>
The library of the Universiteit an Amsterdam has it - I could conceivably
manage to get it through interlibrary loans and make a copy. It's only
66 pages, however. The full title is:

Das chinesischen Pidgin-English : ein bilinguales Pidgin im
Spannungsfeld von Superstrat, Substrat und eigener Kreativitaet.

However, I think you might try contact Walter Bisang himself - he's
available at: bisang@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de. Perhaps he has a real
copy left, or some other interesting pointers.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org