Pidgins and Creoles
Belizean National Kriol Council Website
The National Kriol Council of Belize promotes the usage of Belizean Kriol, an the English-based Creole language of Belize; they hope to standardize a grammar and and phonemic latin-script orthography for the language and promote its education, use, and legitimacy.
Belize Accents
Play videoShort with samples of speech in Belize associated with different ethnic groups; speakers seem to be using different codes but are framed as just speaking in different "accents"; artifact for contact languages reading: Schneider, Britta. 2017. Kaleidoscopes of Indexicality: Multiplex Symbolic Functions of Language and Unfocused Social Categories.
What I Love About My Gullah Geechee Language
Play videoHarvard Gullah-Geechee Professor Sunn m'Cheaux discusses his love for his native language, one of the last creole still spoken in the United States, and teaches you the Gullah words for baby, toddler, and something in between!
Harvard Gullah Teacha
Play videoHarvard Professor Sunn m'Cheaux teaches Gullah, one of the last creole languages spoken in the United States. Here he teaches viewers a few words and discusses some of the similarities between Gullah and other contact varieties in the Americas, likely a result of influence from the same substrate languages.
BBC News - in Pidgin!
A link to the BBC News Pidgin website, which contains articles written in West African Pidgin English. Since 2017 the service has offered coverage on events in Nigeria, broader West Africa, and the rest of the world.
Tok Pisin Song In Papua New Guinean Village
Play videoIn a Papua New Guinean village called Yanglam, Salak sings a Tok Pisin song for the camera.
PNG in NYC - Tok Pisin
Play videoIlona Rayan, now a Long Islander, was born in Papua New Guinea, one of the world's most linguistically diverse places. She and her mother are the only two speakers of Tawala in New York. Here speaking PNG's national language, the English-based creole Tok Pisin, she describes the language situation in the country and in her very multilingual family.
National Anthem of Vanuatu - "Yumi, Yumi, Yumi"
Play videoLyric video of the national anthem of Vanuatu in Bislama.
Yumi = we/us, which comes from English "you" and "me"
Toukala speaking Bislama
Play videoAccording to the comments section: "She is talking about an issue with Young People in Vanuatu who have no drive or motivation to do something in their lives or their future she shared her experience with local organisation (One Bag Production) who helped her find work and she is encouraging the young people to not waste their future and actually do something and if they need help please see one of the organisation who help young people"
Yu mas save gud - Bahá'í inspired song in Bislama
Play videoYu mas save gud = You must understand well
Video Description:
"Yu mas save gud is a Bahá'í inspired song in Bislama about the education of children. It is performed by Toulong in Santo, Vanuatu, in 2016."
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"The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people." (Wikipedia)
Hawaiian Pidgin Brings Sense of Pride to Locals
Play videoA brief video about Hawaiian Pidgin, or Hawaiian Creole, and its place culturally in Hawaii.
Singlish Frozen
Play videoA scene from Disney's Frozen, dubbed over in Singlish. Sometimes referred to as the most efficient language, Singlish is a creole language spoken in Singapore that incorporates English as well as various other languages like Cantonese, Malay, and Tamil.
The BBC in pidgin? People like it well-well
The BBC World Service now distributes its news in West African Pidgin English, spoken by some 75 million people. [Published on 12-30-2017]
Creoles
Play videoThis short video gives a great background of how far language can come from something as simple as a few words that are understood between a small group. It shows how creoles get created through pidgins.
Myrtle Woodcock speaks Chinook language 1952
Play videoA recording from 1952 of a woman speaking Chinook language.
creole languages
encyclopedia britannica's definition/history of creole language
Nigerian Opera Sung in Pidgin English
An article describing an opera written and sung by a speaker of Nigerian Pidgin English. [Published on 08-14-2015]
Stereotypes of Variation within a Creole (TCE)
A non-Linguist self reflects on attending her "prestige" secondary school in Trinidad, noting auditory intonational and lexical differences that marks these girls. They also tend to speak closer to the (acrolectal) "Standard," marked as the more educated (prestige) style of discourse. [Published on 07-19-2010]