Pidgin: The Languages Of Oceania (Lonely Planet Phrasebooks) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Trevor Balzer, Ernie Lee, Peter Mulhausler, Paul Monaghan, Denise Angelo, Dana Ober
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 607295
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 3.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1741045975
Dewey Decimal Number: 919
EAN: 9781741045970
ASIN: 1741045975
Publication Date: July 1, 1999
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Product Description
The best available guide to the pidgins and creols of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, north Australia and Torres Strait. These fascinating languages have developed from English, so you'll recognize plenty of words, but their grammar, sentence structure and extensive vocabularies mean that you'll find this phrasebook invaluable in understanding the language around you.
In This Guide:
Wherever you travel in the region, and despite the huge numbers of local languages, you can still communicate easily.
Cultural tips throughout.
Get around without a hitch.
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Talk your way through Melanesia! June 8, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book covers the three Pidgin languages of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu - three of the most diverse, fascinating and unspoilt countries in the South Pacific. While English is spoken by many people in all the three, the Pidgins described here are the lingua franca in each, and I found that locals were very happy to hear me speak them. Each of the three languages is introduced by a good description of its grammar (don't worry, easy and similar in all three) and pronunciation, followed by useful phrases arranged thematically.
And here comes my only complaint - I would have preferred more phrases, and perhaps short dictionary listings for all the three languages. Space for that could have been found by omitting what seems a waste here to me - descriptions of two obscure pidgin languages of Australia, which are also included in LP's Australian Phrasebook (where they logicaly belong) anyway.
Still, within the confines of its limited space, this little book is excellent.
If you are lucky enough to travel to these charming archipelagos, don't leave home without it!
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