OTHERSOURC:Seligmann, C. G. 1911. The Veddas. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press.
CONSONANTS:
ERGATIVE:
PREPPOST:
COMMENTS:Vedda has been misclassified as a member of the Sinhalese-Maldivian branch of Indo-European. While there are still Vedda people, the Vedda language has long been extinct and virtually nothing is known about it. The Vedda today speak a divergent dialect of Sinhalese with many words whose origin is unknown. It is suspected that these words are relics from the original Vedda language.
NUMBER:5687
LANGUAGE:Asian Swahili
LOCATION:Kenya
CLASSIFICA:Swahili-Based Creole
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:5688
LANGUAGE:Fanagolo
ALTERNATEN:Piki
LOCATION:South Africa
POPULATION:200,000
CLASSIFICA:Zulu-Based Pidgin
GRAMMAR:GD: Bold, J. D. 1971. Dictionary, Phrase-Book and Grammar of Fanagalo. Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland.
CONSONANTS:
p t k b d ɡ č ɡ̌ f s h v z m n l ɬ r
STOPS:p b t d k ɡ
AFFRICATES:č ɡ̌
FRICATIVES:f v s z h
NASALS:m n
LATERALS:l ɬ
VIBRANTS:r
CLICKS:/ || !
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
i u e o a
FRONTVOWEL:i e
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:u o
DIPHTHONGS:ai ej au oi ou
SYLLABLE:mˈ nˈ
STRESS:penult
NOUNNUMBER:s p
DEMONSTRAT:1
ARTICLES:def
PRONOUNS:
1 4 2 5 3 6d 6
SYNTAX:SVO AN NG DN NUM-N N-POSS
PREPPOST:PREP
COMMENTS:Fanagalo is a pidgin based on Zulu, used as a lingua franca in Southern Africa.
NUMBER:5689
LANGUAGE:Sea Island Creole
ALTERNATEN:Gulla
LOCATION:Georgia (Sea Island)
CLASSIFICA:English-Based Creole
OTHERSOURC:AL 6:8
CONSONANTS:
p pʔ t tʔ k kʔ kp b d ɡ ɡb ts dz f s š šʔ h v z m n ñ l r
STOPS:p pʔ b t tʔ d k kʔ ɡ kp ɡb
AFFRICATES:ts dz
FRICATIVES:f v s z š šʔ h
NASALS:m n ñ
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:r
MODIFIEDCO:Nc p b t d k ɡ kp ɡb
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
i ɨ u e ǝ o ɛ ɔ a
FRONTVOWEL:i e ɛ
CENTRALVOW:ɨ ǝ a
BACKVOWELS:u o ɔ
NASALVOWEL:ĩ ẽ ã ũ
NUMBER:5690
LANGUAGE:Guyanese
LOCATION:Guyana
CLASSIFICA:English-Based Creole
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:5691
LANGUAGE:Western Caribbean Creole
ALTERNATEN:Jamaican Creole
LOCATION:Jamaica
POPULATION:1.5 million
CLASSIFICA:English-Based Creole
DICTIONARY:Cassidy, F. G. and R. G. Le Page, eds. 1967. Dictionary of Jamaican English. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press.
TEXTBOOKS:Bailey, Beryl Loftman. 1968. Jamaican Creole Language Course. Washington, D.C.
ph th kh (kph) b d ɡ (ɡb) čh ɡ̌ f s š v z ž m n (ñ) ŋ (ŋm) l r
STOPS:ph b th d kh ɡ (kph) (ɡb)
AFFRICATES:čh ɡ̌
FRICATIVES:f v s z š ž
NASALS:m n (ñ) ŋ (ŋm)
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:r
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
i u e o ɛ ɔ a
FRONTVOWEL:i e ɛ
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:u o ɔ
NASALVOWEL:(ı̃) (ɛ̃) (ã) (ũ) (ɔ̃)
TONES:hi lo
STRESS:phonemic
NUMBER:5694
LANGUAGE:Wescos
LOCATION:Cameroons
CLASSIFICA:English-Based Creole
CONSONANTS:
NUMBER:5695
LANGUAGE:Djuka
ALTERNATEN:Aucaan, Ndyuka
LOCATION:Surinam
CLASSIFICA:English-Based Creole
OTHERSOURC:WALS
CONSONANTS:
SYNTAX:SVO
NUMBER:5696
LANGUAGE:Djuka
LOCATION:E Surinam
POPULATION:21,000
CLASSIFICA:English-Based Creole
DICTIONARY:Huttar, George L. 1972. "A Comparative Word List for Djuka, " in LOG, 12-21.
OTHERSOURC:Huttar, George L. and Mary L. Huttar. 1972. "Notes on Djuka Phonology," in LOG, 1-11.
CONSONANTS:
p t k b d ɡ f s h m n l
STOPS:p b t d k ɡ
FRICATIVES:f s h
NASALS:m n
LATERALS:l
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
i u e o a
FRONTVOWEL:i e
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:u o
LONGVOWELS:v̄ all
DIPHTHONGS:diphthonɡs
SYLLABLE:(C)(G)V(N) Nˈ
TONES:hi lo
NUMBER:5697
LANGUAGE:Saramaccan
LOCATION:C Surinam
POPULATION:22,000
CLASSIFICA:English-Based Creole
OTHERSOURC:
Voorhoeve, Jan. 1961. "Le ton et la grammaire dans le saramaccan," Word 17, 146-63. Grimes, Joseph E. and Naomi Glock. 1970. "A Saramaccan Narrative Pattern," Lg 46, 408-25. Rountree, S. Catherine. 1972. "The Phonological Structure of Stems in Saramaccan," in LOG, 22-34. Glock, Naomi. 1972. "Clause and Sentence in Saramaccan," JAL 11, 45-61. AL 6:8
CONSONANTS:
p t c k kp b mb d nd ɟ ñɟ ɡ ŋɡ ɡb f s h v z m n ñ l
STOPS:p b mb t d nd c ɟ ñɟ k ɡ ŋɡ kp ɡb
FRICATIVES:f v s z h
NASALS:m n ñ
LATERALS:l
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
i u e o ɛ ɔ a
FRONTVOWEL:i e ɛ
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:u o ɔ
LONGVOWELS:v̄ all
NASALVOWEL:ṽ all
MODIFIEDVO:ɛ ɔ are 'bright'; e o are 'muffled'
SYLLABLE:(C)V(N)
TONES:hi lo
STRESS:non-phonemic
ARTICLES:def
SYNTAX:SVO AN NG NUM-N POSS-N
PREPPOST:PREP
NUMBER:5698
LANGUAGE:Sranan
LOCATION:Surinam
POPULATION:80,000
CLASSIFICA:English-Based Creole
OTHERSOURC:
Voorhoeve, Jan. 1962. Sranan Syntax. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Echteld, J. J. M. 1962. The English Words in Sranan. Groningen: J. B. Wotters. AL 6:8