Glottolog 5.1 - Torres Strait-Lockhart River Creole

Spoken L1 Language: Torres Strait-Lockhart River Creole

▼Indo-European (586)

Comments on subclassification

Ross Clark 1979-1980

AES status:: threatened
Source:: Campbell, Lyle and Lee, Nala Huiying and Okura, Eve and Simpson, Sean and Ueki, Kaori 2022
Comment:: Torres Strait Creole (10289-tcs) = Vulnerable (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available) (Yumplatok speakers in all age groups use the language ‘often’.)
(see Marmion et al. 2014)

Glottocode: torr1261
ISO 639-3: tcs

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Alternative names

aiatsis:: Torres Strait Creole; Torres Strait Islander language; Torres Strait Islander people; Yumblatok; Yumplatok
elcat:: Ap-Ne-Ap; Blaik; Cape York Creole; Creole; Lockhart Creole; Torres Strait Broken; Torres Strait Creole; Torres Strait Pidgin; West Torres; Yumplatok
glottolog:: Torres Strait Creole

Australia [AU]

References ⇫

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Details	Name	Title	Any field	ca	Year	Pages	Doctype	ca	Provider	da

	Mittag, Joanna Ewa 2016	A Linguistic Description of Lockhart River Creole			2016	462	grammar		hh
	Dutton, Tom E. 1966	The informal speech of Palm Island Aboriginal children, north Queensland: a study of the structure of conversational English of Aboriginal children aged from nine to fourteen years on Palm Island, and a comparison of this structure with that of Aboriginal English of similar informants elsewhere			1966	457	grammar		hh, ozbib
	Anna Shnukal 1988	Broken: An Introduction to the Creole Language of Torres Strait			1988	341	grammar		cldf, hh, mpieva, ozbib
	Terry Crowley and Bruce Rigsby 1979	Cape York Creole			1979	56	grammar_sketch		hh, ozbib
	Anna Shnukal 1991	Torres Strait Creole			1991	15	grammar_sketch		hh, ozbib
	Ian G. Malcolm 2004	Australian creoles and Aboriginal English: morphology and syntax			2004	25	grammar_sketch		hh, ozbib
	Sidney H. Ray 1907	The Jargon English of Torres Straits			1907	4	wordlist		cldf, hh, ozbib
	Marmion, Doug and Obata, Kazuko and Troy, Jakelin 2014	Community, identity, wellbeing: The report of the Second National Indigenous Languages Survey			2014		comparative		cldf
	na 2013	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition			2013		comparative		cldf
	Shnukal, Anna 1985	The spread of Torres Strait Creole to the central islands of Torres Strait			1985	15	socling		benjamins, hh, ozbib
	Shnukal, Anna 1983	Torres Strait Creole: the growth of a new Torres Strait language			1983	13	socling		hh, ozbib
	ISO 639-3 Registration Authority 2018	Change Request Number 2018-058: adopted update [tcs] (2019-01-25)			2018		overview		iso6393
	Sandefur, John R. 1990	Kriol and Torres Strait Creole: where do they meet?			1990	13			ozbib, sil16
	Kennedy, Rod 1985	Broken: the language spoken by Torres Strait Islanders			1985	4			ozbib, sil16

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