[Today we highlight the forthcoming international Linguistics Conference which will be hosted by the University of Guyana’s Department of Language and Cultural Studies within its Faculty of Education ...

When local comedian Andy Bumatai was searching for a new way to attract the attention of audiences on the Internet, his wife suggested he find inspiration in something from the old days: Pidgin, the ...

[In a follow-up to his essay last week on the 2024 Joint Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics and the Society for Pidgin Languages set for August 5 – 9 at the University of Guyana ...

The dynamics of pidgin and creole languages reflect the processes by which contact varieties emerge, evolve and stabilise into fully-fledged linguistic systems. Pidgins originate in situations of ...

A new exhibit opens this weekend on Pidgin, Hawaii’s creole language. The exhibit titled, “Pidgin: How was, how stay,” is to feature an illustrated timeline that connects history and the development ...

A new world atlas of colonial-era languages reveals massive traces of African and Pacific source languages. A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from ...

“You don’t know how happy this makes me,” I wrote a colleague after she casually sent me a link to a recent news story reporting that the U.S. Census Bureau now recognizes Hawaiian Pidgin English as a ...

MILILANI, Hawaii — When Hawaii comedian Andy Bumatai was searching for a new way to attract the attention of audiences on the Internet, his wife suggested he find inspiration in something from the old ...