Re: IE Creoles? (was: Middle English Plurals)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > > > Tok Pisin survived. If it hadn't been for increased literacy

in

> > > > English and French many more of their creoles would have
> survived.
> > > > Why did all the IE creoles disappear then?
> > >
> > > We're into speculation here, which is likely to be unproductive
> in
> > the end.
> > > But we might in passing note that modern Creoles have survived -

> > what - 200
> > > years? You're talking 3000 or so with PIE creoles.
>
> Would there have been IE creoles?

>Are there any Russian-based creoles?

Russenorsk.

>Are there any creoles in China?

Supposedly that's where the name Pidgin came from.
"Long time no see?" Bu shi > bovine excrement.


Torsten