Bislama English Based Pidgins and Creoles Natural Languages Linguistics

This is the English-based pidgin of Vanuatu. It is also known as Bichelamar. Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Pijin of the Solomon Islands are closely related. French has had some minor influence on Bislama, since Vanuatu was formerly a colony of both England and France.

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• - Vanuatu news reported in Bislama.
  
• - A translation of the Tower of Babel section of the Bible into Bislama.
  
• - A series of Bible lessons written in Bislama by Ron Graham.
  
• - Three short stories in Bislama.
  
• - As published in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 30, 1991.
  
• - A brief description of Bislama.
  
• - An introduction to the pidgin of Vanuatu. A quote in Bislama is included.
  
• - An annotated bibliography of Bislama.
  
• - A bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, phrase books and study guides.
  
  

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