ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Charter Of The French Language, List Of Tree Deities, Melanesian Languages
10 Dec 2020
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In the second part of the 19th century labourers, on sugar plantations who were recruited from their home islands in melanesia had no access to learn the language of the plantation overseers, nor that of fellow diverse workers. Thus, a new language developed that retained some grammatical features of the melanesian languages and borrowed english vocabulary. For a language with an unpromising start that did not exist 150 years ago, it is now spoken in. Papua new guinea, solomon islands and vanuatu and serves as a national language. New languages also appear within particular social groups: verlan, the language of young people in the housing projects of the suburbs of paris, is a case in point. Verlan is a form of french slang that plays with syllables and sounds and typically reverses the order of syllables as they are being heard (not written). Verlan (means: reverse) and ripou (a corrupt police officer).
