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- Shelta/Gammon A paper written by Heather Tondini. "Shelta (Sheldru) is the language spoken by approximately 86,000 Irish Travellers (Ethnologue, 1996) in several countries: Ireland, Britain, U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. Shelta is referred to as Gammon by the Irish Travellers and is also known as The Cant (or Cant)." Shelta has an English grammar with an Irish vocabulary.
- Electronic Text Center Liberian Letters A collection of letters written by African-American settlers in 19th century Liberia.
- Language Lessons for Visitors - Anguilla Local News Index Six brief "lessons" in the form of word definitions
- english or English? Attitudes, Local Varieties and English Language Teaching This article discusses the issues surrounding the phenomenon of local varieties of English, those developments which take place where forms of the ex-colonial language have evolved and developed in their own right independently of their metropolitan sources.
- Language Contact Is English a creole?
- Montserrat Creole - an Irish brogue? An analysis of the alleged Irish influence on Montserrat Creole.
- Orthography Development for Belize Creole A paper by Ken Decker.
- Oh Gawd, I Vish dis Ig'rance Vud Stop! An essay on Bermudan English in the wake of the Ebonics debate in the United States.
- Ghanaian Pidgin English A demonstration version of a CD. A grammar introduction and samples of Ghanaian Pidgin are included in the demonstration.
- Language Miniatures Is `Pidgin English' Just a Makeshift? A sophisticated bridge between languages.
- The Corpus of Written British Creole: A Users Guide A description of written Caribbean English creoles
- English Loanwords in Korean: Patterns of Borrowing and Semantic Change The abstract and references to a paper on Korean Bamboo English.
- Belize Kriol Created by the National Kriol Council of Belize. This site contains a Belize Creole English dictionary, a spelling guide, creole history, and Anansi stories.
- Guyanese Proverbs Many proverbs in Guyanese Creole and English.
- Trini Talk: A Dialect Poem by Miguel Browne A poem in Trinidadian English.
- English in the West Indies An essay on the history (present linguistic situation, creole characteristics, lexis), phonology and grammar.
- Local Lingo A few Anguilla English words and phrases explained.
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