“You don’t know how happy this makes me,” I wrote a colleague after she casually sent me a link to a recent news story reporting that the U.S. Census Bureau now recognizes Hawaiian Pidgin English as a ...

Pau. I stared hard at the word, written in Magic Marker on colored cardstock and tacked up on the bulletin board of my mom’s first-grade classroom, until it dawned on my 11-year-old brain that it wasn ...

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Dr. Donald Winford—Professor of Linguistics, Ohio State University; Editor, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Around the world when language groups are forced together, Pidgin and Creole ...

A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...

HILO — Pidgin, the local lingua franca that emerged so the many different ethnicities who toiled on sugar plantations could converse with each other, is now recognized as one Hawaii’s official ...

IN AN airy first-floor study, Eldred Jones, who is 93, takes a break from his Braille Bible to talk about how he first left Sierra Leone to study at Oxford. Later he became principal of west Africa’s ...

When local comedian Andy Bumatai was searching for a new way to attract the attention of audiences on the Internet, his wife suggested he find inspiration in something from the old days: Pidgin, the ...

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