"kachi" - 1 õppematerjal

Pidgins, creoles and Standard English (English in South-East Asia and the Pacific)

Some characteristics:  Based on a vocabulary of 700 English words  Grammar and syntax are simple and positional (grammatical categories are indicated by the position of words in a sentence)  Lack of plural personal pronouns  Chinese Pidgin English Example sentences:  Hab gat rening kum daun (Have got raining come down) “There is rain coming down”  Tumoro mai no kan kum (Tomorrow my no can come) “Tomorrow I can't come”  Mai no hab kachi basket (My no have catch basket) “I didn't bring a basket”  Creole language  a natural language developed by mixing two parent laguages  arose as the result of European maritime power  Vocabulary mostly supplied by the parent language  arose when the children of pidgin- speaking adults started speaking the language as a first language Manglish (Mangled English)  an English-based creole spoken in Malaysia  sometimes known as Rojak or Bahasa