Unit 5 Pidgin/HCE Flashcards
(10 cards)
What’s the difference between creole and pidgin
Pidgin: simplified communication between two speakers that share the same language
Creole: fully developed language created by pidgin and more.
When was creole created?
During the Sugar Plantation era
What’s a dialect?
Varieties of a language. Ex: American, British and Australian share English
What’s an accent?
How the same language is pronounced differently by groups of speakers.
Ex. French Canadian vs french
What’s a jargon?
Terms used among specific group of people.
Ex. Swimming terms like stealing the start
What’s a slang?
Informal vocab used in casual situations, often replaced after time.
Ex. Groovy (1970) - cool, nice
How do you say what is this and what is that?
He aha kēia and He aha kēlā
He aha kēia?
(This is a class)
He papa kēia.
