Beach-La-Mar to Bislama: The Emergence of a Natural Language in Vanuatu by Terry Crowley

Beach-La-Mar to Bislama: The Emergence of a Natural Language in Vanuatu

Oxford Studies in Language Contact

Terry Crowley

448 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history medium-paced

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Bislama is the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). In this learned study, Crowley traces the history and development of Bislama from the 1840s to the present. Drawing on written records and other historical sour...

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