Category Archives: Pidgin

Pidgin DAY 159 Thursday, May 5, 2022

So if you read the last post you know that after Contact, Hawaii was involved with trade and raid with White English speakers. The mixture of cultures produced Hawaiian Pidgin language. Another Accepted Term for Pidgin English is Hawaiian Creole English. (HCE) Pidgin languages are mixture languages.Hawaiian PidginStarted be spoken in the plantations by adults.Continue reading “Pidgin DAY 159 Thursday, May 5, 2022”

HawobiYupid Day 140 End of Week 28 Sweet 16 Set

End of Week 28. End of Round 3. Here are the Sweet 16 Survivors and Contests to see who will make it to the Round of 8 Vietnamese Versus BabyCat Versus ThaiBrasilian Versus ItalianIcelandic Versus French Sign Versus KhmerPersian Versus SanskritMakah Versus MaoriHawaiian Versus Pidgin Summary of Round 3 Vietnamese beat YorubaBaby beat JapaneseCat beatContinue reading “HawobiYupid Day 140 End of Week 28 Sweet 16 Set”

PIDGIN 03312022 Day 139

Ancient History & Folklore of People who speak Pidgin or Creole or Lingua Franca “Africans who picked up elements of Pidgin English for purposes of trade with Europeans along the coast probably took the language into the interior where other Africans who may never have seen a white man adopted it as a useful deviceContinue reading “PIDGIN 03312022 Day 139”

DAY 100 Round 3 Finished End Week 20

After 3 rounds of competitions the 128 Languages have been whittled down to 32. The Round of 32 includes: yorubavietnamesebabyjapanesedogcatplantsthaigreekbrasiliancatalanitaliandanishicelandicfrenchrussiansignsinhalamoroccan arabicpersianurdunepalesesanskritinuitmakahmaorinavajohawaiianojibweyupikpidgin congrats to everyone for making it this far in the madness

DAY 098 PIDGIN not Pigeon

Because Nigeria was invaded by many European countries with different languages Nigerian Pidgin was commonly spoken among the multilingual populations of the big cities. Today the language has more speakers than any other language in the country. Hawai‘i Pidgin spoken on the playgrounds and in neighborhood conversations. It can also be heard on a fewContinue reading “DAY 098 PIDGIN not Pigeon”

Ōlelo Huhū

Welcome to Language Madness or Ōlelo Huhū. Over the next 37 weeks we will be studying 128 world languages. Please let me know especially if you have videos or movies links that are in or about any of these languages and or Native Speakers that might want to participate. These Languages will be “competing” againstContinue reading “Ōlelo Huhū”