A Comparative Study of Creole French Dialects
The Hague: Mouton, 1964.
Hardcover. Fair with no dust jacket. Item #16946
Library REBIND in hardcover with paperback front cover and spine laid down, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, some pages loose but not detached, warped, otherwise light wear. Still solid hardcover.; "The languages which I intend to deal with, then, are those traditionally known as Creole which derive the overwhelming portion of their vocabulary from French. They are found in various parts of the world (although primarily in the Western Hemisphere) which were colonized by the French in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and during their ealry history had slave-based, plantation economies, and a population consisting prepronderantly of Negro slaves imported from various parts of Africa. ... These languages fall into fairly well-defined linguistic and geographical divisions ..." 1) Louisiana; 2) Haitian; 3) Antillean; 4) French Guiana; 5) Indian Ocean - spoken on Reunion, Mauritius, and the Seychelles. ; Janua Linguarum : Series Practica; Ex-Library; 143, (1) pages.
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