Browsing Language Documentation by Subject "Vanuatu"

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Bislama into Kwamera: Code-mixing and Language Change on Tanna (Vanuatu)

Lindstrom, Lamont (University of Hawai'i Press, 2007-12-17)

People throughout Vanuatu frequently mix Bislama (that country’s national Pidgin) into their vernaculars. Extensive code-mixing is an obvious indicator, and sometime cause, of language change or even language replacement. ...
Writing an Endangered Language

Guérin, Valérie (University of Hawai'i Press, 2008-06)

This paper reports on Mavea, an Oceanic language spoken in Vanuatu. The state of endangerment of Mavea is first evaluated using UNESCO’s framework for assessing language vitality. The framework’s nine criteria are applied ...