Glottolog 5.1 - Bislama

Spoken L1 Language: Bislama

Classification

▼Indo-European (586)

Comments on subclassification

Ross Clark 1979-1980

Endangerment

AES status:: not endangered
Source:: David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
Comment:: Bislama (bis-bis) = 1 (National). Statutory national language (1980, Constitution, Article 3(1)). Most in the country understand and use it as lingua franca and as a symbol of national identity. Since 2012, Bislama has a significant role in formal education.

Glottocode: bisl1239
ISO 639-3: bis

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References ⇫

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Name	Title	Year	Pages	Doctype	Provider

Jean-Michel Charpentier 1979	Le Pidgin Bislama(n) et le Multilinguisme aux Nouvelles-Hébrides	1979	416	grammar	cldf, hh, mpieva
Crowley, Terry 2002	Serial verbs in Oceanic : A descriptive typology	2002	298	grammar	cldf, langsci, mpieva
Darrell T. Tryon 1999	Bislama: An Introduction to the National Language of Vanuatu	1999	276	grammar	hh
Terry Crowley 2004	Bislama Reference Grammar	2004	220	grammar	cldf, glossa, hh, mpieva
Guy, J. B. M. 1974	Handbook of Bichelamar - Manuel de Bichelamar	1974		grammar	cldf
Tryon, Darrell T. 1998	Bislama: an introduction to the national language of Vanuatu	1998	275	grammar_sketch	mpieva
J. B. M. Guy 1975	Handbook of Bichelamar/Manuel de Bichelamar	1975	259	dictionary, grammar_sketch	hh, mpieva
W. Churchill 1911	Beach-la-Mar: The jargon or trade speech of the Western Pacific	1911	60	grammar_sketch	hh
Camden, William 1979	Parallels in structure and lexicon and syntax between New Hebrides Bislama and the South Santo language spoken at Tangoa	1979	67	grammar_sketch	cldf, hh, mpieva
Andrew Gray 2012	The languages of Pentecost Island	2012	179	grammar_sketch	hh
Terry Crowley 2004	Bislama: morphology and syntax	2004	20	grammar_sketch	hh
Miriam Meyerhoff 2013	Bislama	2013	9	grammar_sketch	cldf, hh
Stahl, James L. 2000	Review of: Bislama: an introduction to the national language of Vanuatu, by Darrell T. Tryon	2000		grammar_sketch	sil16
Tryon, Darrell T. 1987	Bislama: an introduction to the national language of Vanuatu	1987		grammar_sketch	cldf
Crowley, Terry 1995	A New Bislama Dictionary	1995	456	dictionary	cldf, guldemann, hh, mpieva
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2000b	The emergence of creole subject--verb agreement and the licensing of null subjects	2000	28	specific_feature	cldf
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2001	Another look at the typology of serial verb constructions: The grammaticalization of temporal relations in Bislama (Vanuatu)	2001	22	specific_feature	cldf, zurich
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2003	Reduplication in Bislama. An overview of phonological and semantic factors	2003	8	phonology	cldf, zurich
na 2003	Reduplication in Bislama. An overview of phonological and semantic factors	2003		phonology	cldf
Terry Crowley 1990	From Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: The emergence of a national language in Vanuatu	1990	442	socling, comparative	cldf, hh
Ross Clark 1979-1980	In Search of Beach-la-mar: Towards a History of Pacific Pidgin English	1979	62	overview, comparative	hh
Meyerhoff, Miriam 1998	Recorded during fieldwork June 1998, Vanuatu Cultural Center	1998		minimal	cldf
Meyerhoff, Miriam nd	Example taken from sociolinguistic interviews conducted in northern Vanuatu (Santo township or West Malo island) between November 1994 and June 1995. Transcription and translation checked by Sharon Morrie Tabi.			socling	cldf
Leslie Vandeputte-Tavo 2014	D'une fonction véhiculaire à une fonction identitaire: Trajectoire du bislama au Vanuatu (Mélanésie)	2014		socling	hh
Jean-Michel Charpentier 1996	Bislama: Origins and functions	1996	6	overview	hh
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2000	Constraints on null subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu)	2000	217		asjp2010, cldf, glossa, mpieva
na 1996	Oceanic Studies: proceedings of the First International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics	1996	509		mpieva
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2008	Empirical problems with domain-based notions of "simple"	2008	29		benjamins, cldf
Crowley, Terry 2000	"Predicate marking" in Bislama	2000	28		cldf, zurich
Crowley, Terry 1989	Say, C'Est, And Subordinate Constructions in Melanesian Pidgin	1989	26		benjamins, cldf, guldemann
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2002	Formal and cultural constraints on optional objects in Bislama	2002	25		cldf, zurich
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2003	Formal and cultural constraints on optional objects in Bislama.	2003	24		cldf
Meyerhoff, Miriam 2002	All the same? The emergence of complementisers in Bislama	2002	19		cldf
Meyerhoff, Miriam 1998	Comparing old and new information in Bislama: Nominal deletion with olsem	1998	9		cldf, guldemann
na nd	Now defunct national newspaper. Published in all three official langauges: Bislama, French and English. Orthography not standardized. All examples from VWH reproduce original spelling. Data collected from VWH in 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998.				cldf
na 2002	All the same? The emergence of complementizers in Bislama	2002			cldf
na 2002	‘Preposition’ as a functor: The case of long in Bislama	2002			cldf
na 2000	“Predicate Marking” in Bislama	2000			cldf
Franklin, Karl J. 1992	Review of: Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: The emergence of a national language in Vanuatu, by Terry Crowley	1992			sil16

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