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pidg·in Eng·lish
• n. a pidgin based on English, esp. as used originally by the Chinese for commerce.
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Usefulness of pidgin tongues
Newspaper article from: The Press; 6/14/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...is a good description of a pidgin. Pidgins function as auxiliary trade...believed that there was once Maori Pidgin English. Because pidgins are spoken and not written, they're not preserved. One pidgin which did survive was Sabir...
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Profile: Pidgin English spoken in Hawaii
Transcript from: NPR Special; 7/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...BRAND NPR Special 07-27-2005 Profile: Pidgin English spoken in Hawaii Host: MADELEINE...islanders have a language they call Pidgin English. It's actually a mixture of...Hawaii is a creole language, which is a Pidgin language which has become the community...
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Speak pidgin, think pidgin, write pidgin?
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 11/2/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...country and in other parts of the world. The pidgin English debate surfaced again last month when...to suggest looking into whether Hawaii's pidgin English has played a role in the scores. Pidgin English, or what experts say should be called...
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UH group: Respect pidgin in schools
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 11/20/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...community college English instructor and devout pidgin English speaker -- finds it curious that Gov. Ben Cayetano would criticize the use of pidgin in education while acknowledging that he speaks pidgin from time to time. "So if I talk pidgin...
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Professahs say no let pidgin boddah you in school
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 11/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; Pidgin and English can co-exist...on the relationship between pidgin and school success, and how...lecturer who teaches a course on pidgins and Creoles. While the first...residents is commonly called pidgin, language experts say it...
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Bridges of orality: Nigerian pidgin poetry.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...and artistic poetry. The Pidgin language provides an appropriate...sociocultural factor was the fact that Pidgin was associated with a lower...part from the feeling that pidgins and creoles were corruptions...superiority. In his study of Pidgin literature in Cameroon, a...
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PIDGIN DROPPINGS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/22/2002; 700+ words
; ...THOUGHT WAS A SIMPLE MISTAKE - PIDGIN MISSPELLED AS PIGEON - SEEMED...and cooing and squawking. Pidgin languages, as even the misspellers...Me Tarzan, you Jane.") Pidgins can combine their source languages...In the matter of spelling pidgin, the dominant group agrees...
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HAWAII DEBATES USE OF PIDGIN ENGLISH
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 11/28/1999; 700+ words
; ...perplexed by the language of the locals. Pidgin English is an amalgamation of Hawaiian...writing test has some questioning whether pidgin English is undermining the learning of...School leaders immediately focused on pidgin as the culprit. "If you speak pidgin...
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Darrell T. Tryon and Jean-Michel Charpentier: Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Origins, Growth and Development.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Present-day Pacific pidgins" (pp. 5-19), provides...definition of the term "pidgin" and then gives a brief...concentrates on the three major Pidgin Englishes of Melanesia...Previous theories of pidgin development" (pp...Roger Keesing's work on pidgins and creoles and refer...
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'Hybolics' takes a big step in promoting pidgin as legitimate language
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 10/11/1999; ; 700+ words
; Note: This story is written in pidgin. If you have difficulty understanding...Tonouchi, a strong believer in the merits of pidgin English, has started a magazine that promotes all kinds of writing, including pidgin. LEE A. TONOUCHI LIKE THE NEWSPAPAH...
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PIDGIN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...from English and is therefore an English-based pidgin; HAWAII PIDGIN ENGLISH is the pidgin English spoken in Hawaii. In addition and often prior to such academic names, pidgins may or may not be identified as such and often...
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pidgin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...The earliest documented pidgin is the Lingua Franca...19th cent. Other known pidgins have been employed in...example is the variety of pidgin English that resulted...examples of creoles, pidgins that have acquired native...Da Kine Talk: From Pidgin to Standard English in...
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HAWAII PIDGIN ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
HAWAII PIDGIN ENGLISH, also informally Pidgin . Although the term Hawaiian pidgin has been widely used to refer to the English-based PIDGIN and CREOLE varieties used in Hawaii, some people of ethnic Hawaiian descent have objected to it because...
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MARITIME PIDGIN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...lexical similarities among such widely separated pidgins as Hawaii Pidgin English , Chinook Jargon , and Eskimo Jargon...and the English and French-based Pacific pidgins, and kaukau [from Chinese Pidgin English chowchow ] in Eskimo Jargon and Hawaii...
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WEST AFRICAN PIDGIN ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
WEST AFRICAN PIDGIN ENGLISH, also Pidgin English , pidgin . Short form WAPE . A continuum of English-based pidgins and creoles from GAMBIA to CAMEROON , including enclaves in French and Portuguese-speaking countries. Among its varieties are...
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