Pitcairn-English
| Pitcairn-English (Pitkern) | ||
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Spoken in |
Pitcairn Islands , Norfolk Island , New Zealand | |
| speaker | about 400 | |
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| Official language in | Pitcairn Islands , Norfolk Island | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
pih |
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The Pitcairn English ( "Pitkern" or "Pitcairnesisch") is an on the island of Pitcairn existent Creole language based on a dialect of English of the 18th century and the Tahitian based this era.
The (almost) same language is also spoken by the Pitcairners who were resettled on the Norfolk Island in 1856 , the Norfolk , there under the name "Norfuk" or "Norfolk" .
The language code according to ISO 639-3 is pih .
History of language
After the mutiny on the Bounty , the mutineers sailed to Tahiti , where some of them left the ship (and were later captured). The rest, under the leadership of Fletcher Christian , sailed away together with several Polynesians and finally settled on Pitcairn in the South Pacific .
Since the team of the Bounty did not understand Tahitian, but the population of Tahiti hardly understood English, a pidgin , "Pitcairn-English", today Pitkern , developed as a communication level (if at all) from this point onwards was virtually independent of English.
Examples
| Anger-a-way you. | Good day. - good afternoon. ("Whose path (are you) going?") |
| I glad to meet yorley. | I'm glad to meet you. - I am happy to meet you. |
| Where's that? | Where are they? - where are you? |
| Dar's et. | That's it. - That's it / all. |
| Tomolla ha tudder one | The day after tomorrow - the day after tomorrow ("tomorrow and one after") |
| Ain't account'n! | That doesn't count! - That doesn't count. |
| Stobb i let I talk. | Stop and let me say something. - Stop talking and let me say something. |
| You tallin 'stolly. | You're lying. - you are lying. ("You tell stories") |
| Yus plum how poo-oo. | Your bananas are green. - Your bananas are green. ("Poo-oo" for something like "disgusting".) |
| Berlin is a chapter a 'Doichland. | Berlin is the capital of Germany. - Berlin is the capital of Germany. |
