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Hawai'i Creole: Phonology

  • Kent Sakoda
  • , Jeff Siegel

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterResearch

    Abstract

    Hawai'i Creole is spoken by an estimated 600,000 people in the US state of Hawai'i. In the linguistics literature, it is usually called Hawai'i (or Hawaiian) Creole English, but its speakers call it "Pidgin". While Hawai'i Creole uses many words from Hawaiian and other languages, the majority of its vocabulary comes from English; however, the phonology and semantics are quite different from English. Before describing the phonology of Hawai'i Creole, this chapter presents some background information on its historical development, current use, and vocabulary.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Pacific and Australasia
    EditorsKate Burridge, Bernd Kortmann
    Place of PublicationBerlin, Germany
    PublisherMouton de Gruyter
    Pages210-233
    Edition1
    ISBN (Print)3110196379, 9783110196375
    Publication statusPublished - 2008

    Publication series

    NameVarieties of English
    Number3

    Keywords

    • Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics

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