The development of two creoles of English: Jamaican creole and Tok Pisin It is written by Siegel (2008) that ‘Pidgin and creole languages are spoken by more than 75 million people’ this number may only be an estimate, but it is one that is growing all the time as more and more languages make contact and communication is needed between the two. Siegel (ibid.) explained that ‘Pidgins and creoles are languages that develop in situations where groups of people who do not share a common language have
A pidgin is a language which has no native speakers and was developed as a mean of communication between people who do not have a common language. A pidgin is no one’s native language. Pidgins seem particularly likely to arise when two groups with different language are communicating in a place where there is also a third dominant language. For example, on Caribbean slave plantations in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, West African people were forcefully separated from others who used
On a small island resigns a country called Haiti (Ayiti), next to the Dominican Republic. In this country, Konpa (Kompa) is a style of music made for dancing for its citizens. Konpa (Kompa) is also the national music of Haiti, though it does not have a long history compared to other European musical genres. In the Caribbean country of Haiti, Konpa (Kompa) can be used to see the many influences that have taken place in the colonization of Haiti, from its Spanish influences all the way to its European
focus on how the Tok Pisin and Taiap languages are used by the villagers in normal day-to-day conversations. Finally, the authors hope to find ways in which the mixing of the village vernacular and Tok Pisin are contributing to the interaction of the language shift in Gapun. The vernacular is the native language spoken by the village population.
Topic: Explain how globalization has affected your culture. Globalization has taken place in the past when state and empires expanded their influence far outside their border. However, one of the distinctions of globalization today is the speed with which it is transforming local culture as they took part in a worldwide system of interconnectedness. Through globalization, many cultures in the world have changed dramatically. Globalization is the process of international integration arising from
Language influences the view of the world, embodies a person’s essential for survival to communicate with people, interpret ideas, and have perspective about cultural and traditional knowledge. However, Language extinction is a huge element in every day’s life. Because language extinction also means the culture, religion, social values, and its history is slowly getting loss at the same time. There are many factors to language extinction due to the population, educational, and economic principles