Archive for January 29th, 2008
Should pidgins / creoles be made official languages? Discuss this with reference to specific cases.
Sebba (1997) points out that one of the problems facing the linguist trying to describe the language of Jamaicans is the fact that the language is so varied / variable. De Camp (1971) was the first to describe the Jamaican situation as a dialect continuum linking the broadest creole with the local variety of Standard [...]
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