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Date Posted: 14:03:07 04/30/02 Tue
Author: Buffy's vampire
Subject: More on Tok Pisin

Here is an article on Tok Pisin:
"The National Language of Papua New Guinea" located at
http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/ling/reports/Etepa/
Prepared and written by Edward Etepa. Here is a paragraph from the article.

The historical beginning of Tok Pisin can be traced in the early 18th
century; however, it does not appear fully formed until mid 1885. Its
genesis was the result of a gradually stabilizing and expanding
contact language which went through the following stages of
development: jargon stage, to stable pidgin, expanded pidgin,
followed by creolization on the notion of the pidgin/creole life
cycle. The history of Tok Pisin is complex, recent research by
numerous pidgin/creole linguists have shown that it would be an
oversimplification of the situation to suggest that Tok Pisin
represents a direct linear descendant of Pacific Jargon English which
developed in several varieties in various parts of the South Pacific
before the middle of the 19th century as a result of contacts between
Europeans and South Sea islanders.

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