Definition, Betydelse & Anagram | Engelska ordet BISLAMA

Definition av BISLAMA

1. (språk) bislama

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• Bislama is the first language of many of the "Urban ni-Vanuatu" (citizens who live in Port Vila and Luganville) and the second language of much of the rest of the country's residents.
• For this to happen, however, the people of Tanna had to reject all aspects of European society including money, Western education, Christianity and work on copra plantations, and they had to return to traditional kastom (the Bislama language word for customs).
• Traditional music (known in Bislama as kastom singsing or kastom tanis) is still thriving in the rural areas of Vanuatu.
• There are several creoles of the region, such as Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay.
• The term nakamal is a Bislama word, borrowed from certain Oceanic languages spoken in Vanuatu, such as North Efate.
• Indigenous ni-Vanuatu communities describe their traditional values and beliefs using the modern (Bislama) term kastom.
• Another version is that it derives from the preponderance of sea oak trees found along the coastline, oak giving hoak in the dominant local pronunciation of Bislama; hoak then being reinterpreted as hog as a back-formation by anglophones because voiced final stops such as /g/ are often devoiced in Bislama.
• Wantok is a Bislama, Tok Pisin and Pijin word which comes from the English "one talk", and means people who speak the same language, belong to the same culture, are friends and help one another out.
• Natamata (a Bislama name derived from vernacular words such as Raga / East Ambae tamata and Apma temwat) is a concept underlying the social fabric of traditional communities in north-eastern Vanuatu.
• There are also creoles formed from the interaction of Malay or the colonial languages with indigenous languages, such as Tok Pisin, Bislama, Pijin, various Malay trade and creole languages, Samoan Plantation Pidgin, Hawaiian Pidgin, Norfuk, Pitkern, and Unserdeutsch.

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