The Emergence of a National Language in Vanuatu
Crowley, Terry (Director of the Pacific Languages Unit, University of the South Pacific, Australia)
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Hardback
444 pages
Line Drawings, Maps, Numerous Tables, Bibliography
Published: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198248938
Bislama is the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Vanuatu. This book describes its history and development from the 1840s to the present. It is the first in a new series of books which will aim to present case studies of language contact around the w