Happy Hawaiiana Humpday! Local lingo: Pidgin aka Hawaii Creole! Pidgin took form during the sugar plantation days when thousands of immigrant workers from China, Portugal, Japan, Korea, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, the Philippines and other countries working side by side needed a common language among this diverse group of people who spoke different languages. Once considered broken English, Hawaiian Pidgin is now considered a creole language, a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages. Unlike a pidgin, a simplified form that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups, a creole language is a complete language, used in a community and acquired by children as their native language. So although referred to as Pidgin by locals, its Hawaii Creole! Learn more! sls.hawaii.edu/pidgin/whatIsPidgin.php
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 20:00:02 +0000
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