JOURNAL ARTICLE

The early Baba Malay continuum.

  • Published In: Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages, 2024, v. 39, n. 2. P. 339 1 of 3

  • Database: Communication Source 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Lee, Nala H. 3 of 3

Abstract

Baba Malay today is an endangered creole perceived to be a less flexible, easily identifiable language entity with static ascribed qualities. An investigation of resources from the late 1800s and early 1900s shows that such a characterization of early Baba Malay is not possible. Three novels and twenty letters demonstrate a wide range of variation, lexically and grammatically, emphasizing a wide creole continuum that plausibly existed in the heydays of the language. The wide range of variation can be understood to be detracting from, and aligning with the creole's substrate and lexifier languages, or with the language that was gaining dominance during that time, English. The linguistic ideologies of early Baba Malay speakers and competing pressures in their group identities explain the considerable variation found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages. 2024/07, Vol. 39, Issue 2, p339
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Language and Linguistics
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0920-9034
  • DOI:10.1075/jpcl.00129.nal
  • Accession Number:180922168
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