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english or English? Attitudes, Local Varieties and English Language Teaching
This article discusses the issues surrounding the phenomenon of local varieties of English, those developments which take place where forms of the ex-colonial language have evolved and developed in their own right independently of their metropolitan sources.
www-writing.berkeley.edu
Electronic Text Center: Liberian Letters
A collection of letters written by African-American settlers in 19th century Liberia.
etext.lib.virginia.edu
Language Lessons for Visitors - Anguilla Local News Index
Six brief "lessons" in the form of word definitions.
www.news.ai
A demonstration version of a CD-ROM. A grammar introduction and samples of Ghanaian Pidgin are included in the demonstration.
www-nw.uni-regensburg.de
Montserrat Creole - an Irish brogue?
An analysis of the alleged Irish influence on Montserrat Creole.
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk
The Corpus of Written British Creole: A User's Guide
A description of written Caribbean English creoles.
www.ling.lancs.ac.uk
Trini Talk: A Dialect Poem by Miguel Browne
A poem in Trinidadian English.
users.rcn.com
Leeward Caribbean Creole English: A Language of Antigua and Barbuda
Summary of the linguistic situation of Leeward Caribbean Creole English.
www.ethnologue.com
Many proverbs in Guyanese Creole and English.
www.geocities.com
Is "Pidgin English" Just a Makeshift? A Sophisticated Bridge Between Languages
A discussion of pidgin English.
home.bluemarble.net
The Shelta vocabulary from "The Secret Languages of Ireland" by R. A. S. Macalister, 1931.
oldwelshbooks.net
Standardization of Melanesian Pidgin English (Tok Pisin)
Full text of a 2002 paper by Valeri Khabirov. (PDF)
www.pca.uni-siegen.de
Brief encyclopedia article on Yiddish-English pidgin.
en.wikipedia.org
Encyclopedia article on Danish-English pidgin.
en.wikipedia.org
Brief encyclopedia article on Finnish-English pidgin.
en.wikipedia.org