ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BEACH-LA-MAR
Quasi-French, from bêche-de-mer (trepang, this being a major trading commodity in the SW Pacific; hence the name was applied to the trading language).
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEACH-LA-MAR»
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Beach-
la-
Mar to Bislama: the emergence of a national ...
Bislama is the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). In this learned study, Crowley traces the history and development of Bislama from the 1840s to the present.
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Languages and Their Status
By about 1860, an English-based pidgin language called Beach-la- mar had
developed and was spoken in the islands of the South Seas. It is possible that
Beach-la-mar was itself derived from, or at least influenced by, the well-known ...
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Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Origins, Growth and Development
Theories of Beach-la-Mar development The title of the article is evocative in itself.
The author decided to conduct a piece of research without preconceived ideas,
relying on currently available sources. In fact, it is important to situate Clark's ...
Darrell T. Tryon, Jean-Michel Charpentier, 2004
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Language its nature development and origin
Beach-la-Mar. §2. Grammar. §3. Sounds. §4. Pidgin. §5. Grammar, etc. §6.
General Theory. §7. Mauritius Creole. §8. Chinook Jargon. §0. Chinook
continued. §10. Makcshift Languages. §ll. Romanic Languages. XII.—§ 1. Beach-
la-Mar.
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Language Planning and Education in Australasia and the South ...
Well-documented accounts of the origins of Bislama can be found in Clark (1979)
and Charpentier (1979). An early description of Beach-la- mar is provided by
Schuchardt, in his studies of Melanesian English (1883 and 1889, in Gilbert,
1980).
Richard B. Baldauf, Allan Luke, 1990
Some writers have also used the term 'Beach La Mar' in this way to cover the
entire Melanesian Pidgin-speaking area during the nineteenth century (see e.g.
Churchill 1911, who includes material from New Guinea, Queensland, Torres
Strait, ...
Ekkehard Konig, Johan van der Auwera, 2013
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Exploring Language Change
In the 1820s, English, American and Australian interests lay in whaling near the
Melanesian islands, and later extended to the region's trade in sandalwood and
an edible, allegedly aphrodisiac sea-slug known as beach-la-mar (from ...
Mari Jones, Ishtla Singh, 2013
Its basis seems to be Beach-la-Mar, the common trade speech of the Western
Pacific, in which, for many years past, there have been a number of terms of
American origin, e.g., alligator, boss, pickaninny, schooner and tomaha'wk,' but
since ...
The problems created by linguistic diversity in the Pacific were solved by the
evolution of a lingua franca, described by Stevenson in In the South Seas as 'an
efficient pidgin, what is called to the westward “Beach-la—Mar”', which 'may be ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, Roslyn Jolly, 2008
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
A5] BT Fleas Beach fleas USE Talitridae Beach flies USE Canaceidae Beach
Haven Girls Camp (N.C.) USE Beech Haven Camp for Girls (N .C.) Beach-la-mar
jargon USE Bislama language Beach-la-mar language USE Bislama language ...
