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- Title
NAUTICAL SOURCES OF KRJO VOCABULARY.
- Authors
Hancock, Ian F.
- Abstract
Krio, the English-based Creole of Sierra Leone, is often asserted to have been imported from America. Historical evidence, however, shows that speakers of an English-based contact variety were in the Freetown area before 1600. Much of the vocabulary of the surviving English-based Creole matches nautical vocabulary better than any other variety of English. Enclaves of British seamen who mixed with Africans on the Guinea coast facilitated the spread of this nautical variety and the mixing of elements from the African languages of the area. Considerable lexical and phonological evidence supports the view that the nautical variety is the significant dialect of English to be considered in this connection. There is much parallel evidence from places like St. Helena and Tristan da Cunha.
- Subjects
KRIO language; MARITIME shipping; CREOLE dialects; LANGUAGE &; languages; SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1976, Vol 1976, Issue 7, p23
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijsl.1976.7.23