![]() It shows that the federal government acknowledges the legitimacy of a tongue widely stigmatized, even among locals who dabble in it, as a crass dialect reserved for the uneducated lower classes and informal settings. The significance of the gesture is symbolic, and it extends far beyond those who are from Hawaii and/or those who speak Hawaiian Pidgin. (Roughly 1,600 of the 327,000 bilingual survey respondents said they speak it, while other sources-albeit imperfect ones-have suggested that as many as half of the state’s population of 1.4 million does.) So why was I reverberating with a sense of, to borrow a Pidgin phrase, chee hu!? “Oh really?!” the colleague responded, surprised at my excitement.Īfter all, how could a seemingly silly decision to include the local, slang-sounding vernacular on a language survey listing more than 100 other options cause so much delight? It’s not like the five-year American Community Survey gleaned accurate data on how many people in Hawaii actually speak Pidgin at home. Census Bureau now recognizes Hawaiian Pidgin English as a language. Leh we don't habe haad test wen Satan try we.“You don’t know how happy this makes me,” I wrote a colleague after she casually sent me a link to a recent news story reporting that the U.S. Gee we de food wa we need dis day yah an ebry day.Ĭause we da fagibe dem people wa do bad ta we. Although a complete Gullah translation has yet to appear, the a translation of the Gospel of Luke was published in 1995 as " De Good Nyews Bout Jedus Christ Wa Luke Write," and included this version of the Lord's Prayer: Gullah developed among slaves who worked on brutal Antebellum-era rice plantations so god-forsaken, that the white masters only visted them twice a year, leaving the slaves free to develop a hybrid language uniquely their own. Gullah, spoken in the coastal regions of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida, and especially on the Sea Islands off the Georgia coast, is more of a creole than a pidgin, because it is some peoples' native tongue, but it generally fits in here, so I am including it. Like we too, we excuse the people whe them do we bad, How you want, so i' must be for groun' like fo heaven. ![]() Kamtok, spoken in Camaroon and thus also known as Camaroonian Pidgin English, is a member of the West African Pidgin English family of Pidgins. Kingdom and strength and big name are yours all times. Make us strong in following your likes on ground and also following all of them in heaven too.Īnd also we will lose them all wrongs that all men make on us. Kingdom na strong na biknem i bilong yu tasol oltaim. Olsem mipela i lusim ol rong ol man i mekim long mipela. Nau yu ken givim mipela kaikai inap long dispela de. ![]() Strongim mipela long bihainam laik bilong yu long graun olseam ol i bihainim long heven tu. A blend of English, German, and local roots, the language is increasingly becoming more of a creole in some places, as native dialects continue to die out. ![]() Tok Pisin, also known as Melenesian Pidgin English, is the most commonly spoken language in Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands. No let us get chance fo do bad kine stuff,īut take us outa dea, so da Bad Guy no can hurt us. Jalike us guys let da odda guys go awready, Give us da food we need fo today an every day. Jalike da angel guys up inside da sky make jalike you like. We like all da peopo know fo shua how you stay, God, you our Fadda, you stay inside da sky. From 1988 to 2000, a team of 26 fluent Hawaiian Pidgin speakers recurited by retired Cornell University linguistics professor Joseph Grimes translated into Hawaiian Pidgin the entire Bible, which they called " Da Jesus Book." Here is what they came up with for the Lord's Prayer: Hawaiian Pidgin English is a combination of English, Hawaiian, and a wide smattering of other languages that developed among Hawaii's immigrant plantation workers, who hailed from many countries and thus found pidgin English to be the only language they shared in common. ![]()
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