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Encyclopedia > Queensland Kanaka English
Queensland Kanaka English
Spoken in: Queensland, Australia
Total speakers:
Language family: English-based pidgin. 
Writing system: Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: cpe
ISO 639-3: —

  Capital Brisbane Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Quentin Bryce Premier Peter Beattie (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 28  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $158,506 (3rd)  - Product per capita  $40,170/person (6th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  4,070,400 (3rd)  - Density  2. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families A language family is a group of related languages said to have descended from a common proto-language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of two or more languages as a means of communication between speakers of different tongues, and usually a simplified form of one of the languages. ... Writing systems of the world today. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ...

Queensland Kanaka English, Queensland Canefields English or Queensland Plantation Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by Melanesian labourers in Queensland, Australia from the late 1860s. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A Pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of a mixture of other languages as a means of communication between speakers of different tongues. ... Map showing Melanesia. ... Capital Brisbane Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Quentin Bryce Premier Peter Beattie (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 28  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $158,506 (3rd)  - Product per capita  $40,170/person (6th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  4,070,400 (3rd)  - Density  2. ... // The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ...


References

  • Dutton, Thomas E. (1980). Queensland Canefields English of the late nineteenth century. Pacific Linguistics. 
  • Dutton, Thomas E.; Mühlhäusler, Peter (1984). "Queensland Kanaka English". English World-Wide 4 (2): 231—264. 

See also

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Mid-Pacific English-based pidgins and creoles

Tok Pisin · Pijin · Bislama · Torres Strait Creole · Loyalty Islands Pidgin English · New Caledonian Pidgin English† · Micronesian Pidgin English† · Queensland Kanaka English · Maori Pidgin English† · Samoan Plantation Pidgin† Blackbirding refers to the recruitment of people through trickery and kidnappings to work on plantations, particularly the sugar cane plantations of Queensland (Australia) and Fiji[1] , as well as in the early days of the pearling industry in Broome. ... The Kanakas were workers brought from the Pacific Islands as indentured servants to cover serious labor shortages in various European colonies, such as Fiji, Australia and British Columbia, Canada. ... A pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of two or more languages as a means of communication between speakers of different tongues, and usually a simplified form of one of the languages. ... A creole language, or simply a creole, is stable language that originated from a non-trivial combination of two or more languages, typically with many features that are not inherited from any parent. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Pijin is a language spoken in the Solomon Islands. ... Bislama is a Melanesian creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu. ... Torres Strait Creole (also Torres Strait Pidgin, Torres Strait Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole) is a creole language spoken on several Torres Strait Islands (Queensland, Australia). ...



 

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