10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIRI MOTU»
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Hiri Motu in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey
everyone ... it is now difficult to find good Hiri Motu speakers amongst the
youngest generation" (p. 12). Hiri Motu is divided into two major dialects, that of
speakers of Austronesian languages in the Central District and that of speakers
of ...
2
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Probably the most interesting feature of Hiri Motu syntax, however, is its variation
in sentential word order between SOV and OSV, with the latter especially
common when the subject is a pronoun. (SVO sentences also occur, but rarely.)
Now ...
Sarah Grey Thomason, Terrence Kaufman, 1988
3
Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the ...
One of the results of that conference was that it was recommended that the name
Police Motu be changed to Hiri Motu because, it was thought (wrongly, for
reasons already given) that the language was a continuation of a hiri trading
language ...
Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler, Darrell T. Tyron, 1996
4
Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World
Hiri Motu is a pidginized form of the Papuan language, Motu. It developed as a
trade language between speakers of Austronesian and nonAustronesian
languages. (Hiri is the Motu word for a trading expedition.) Hiri Motu almost
certainly ...
5
Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture
Hiri Motu developed in the contact situation characterized by bonded labor and a
male-exclusive work context. Finally, village labor became increasingly
marginalized and female. Did Pure Motu become almost a "private" language by
the ...
An example is Hiri Motu. As we saw above, the Motu people avoided using their '
true' language in talking to outsiders; instead, they used foreigner talk. Their
position in and around Port Moresby in New Guinea was prominent enough that
...
Sarah Grey Thomason, 2001
7
Contact Languages: A Wider Perspective
On the one hand, most of the features that distinguish Simplified Motu and Hiri
Motu from Motu have parallels in one or more of the languages the Motu were in
contact with at the time of first European contact. On the other hand, all except ...
Sarah Grey Thomason, 1997
8
Progression and Regression in Language: Sociocultural, ...
Another example is simplified Motu which was adopted first as the language of
the Police Force as Police Motu and later as the language of wider
communication in Papua as Hiri Motu. Both mission lingua franca and Hiri Motu
have come ...
Kenneth Hyltenstam, Ake Viberg, 1993
9
Status Change of Languages
By contrast, Hiri Motu ('trade Motu'), an indigenous pidgin based on Motu, one of
the languages of what used to be the Territory of Papua has become for some, a
symbol of Papuan separatism. The distribution of Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu (cf.
Ulrich Ammon, Marlis Hellinger, 1992
10
Processes of Language Contact: Studies from Australia and ...
central Hiri Motu replaces these with analytic pronouns. Example (5) illustrates
the object pronominals (Foley 1986: 33-35): (5) Non-central and Central Hiri
Motu: Central Hiri Motu: Motu: lau itaia oi lau ita-mu na ita-mu I see you I see-you
I ...
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIRI MOTU»
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Hiri Motu is used in the context of the following news items.
The Hiri Trade and Moale Festival | Central Provonce, PNG
Much of this is evident today with the Hiri Motu language, a vernacular understood by the Motuans and their soul westerly trading partners. «EMTV Online, Jul 15»
The Weekend quiz
6 Which country's official languages are Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin and English? 7 Stott Hall Farm stands in the middle of which motorway? «The Guardian, Mar 15»
Small town girl spends four decades working in the remote jungles
Velma immediately started working on small projects including compiling a dictionary in the Hiri Motu language. Helen arrived seven months ... «Waterloo Record, Feb 15»
Stars, Milky Way captured in stunning time-lapse photos and video
Of course - any foreign language (Navajo, Sioux, Hiri Motu, Lingala) to a monolingual European sounds like a language nobody speaks. FAIL. «CNET, May 14»
Radio broadcaster Jane Belfield became a voice of optimism for …
"At the 18 radio stations, the news would be transcribed and then translated into pidgin English, Hiri Motu and a clutch of PNG's hundreds of ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 14»
PNG paper labels asylum plan 'Ruddiculous'
PNG citizenship can only be applied for after eight years of residency, and applicants must speak Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu or "a vernacular of the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 13»
Prince Charles talks pidgin on pomp-filled Papua New Guinea tour
... in bright floral shirts and grass skirts welcoming the royal couple to Boera village where they were treated to a traditional hiri motu war dance. «News Tribe, Nov 12»
