From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61385
Date: 2008-11-04
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>> >
>>
>> That's an interesting point.
>> In French, the word "dialect" tends to be limited
>> to the historical dialects
>> of old French.
>> There's a pervading fiction that modern (France) French
>> has no dialect,
>> something that is obviously contradicted by reality,
>> and the fact I have much trouble understanding somebody
>> from Narbonne,
>> not to speak about Quebec French and Creoles.
>>
>> Where is there English creoles in places never ruled by
>> English-speaking
>> powers ?
>> Chicago Black Ghetto !?
>>
>> A.
> English Creoles have moved across borders into Cameroons, Equatorial
> Guinea (Bioko), Caribbean Central America, Dutch Antilles, Suriname,
> Colombian islands, and I think some of the minor French islands of the
> Caribbeans such as St. Barts. I've been told Krio runs along the coast
> from Sierra Leone to the Congo border, albeit in some places as a lingua
> franca, in others as a market language, and, my Ghanaian colleagues tell
> me, with the exception of Ghana, where Akan is the lingua franca
>
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In Cameroon,
English seems to be one of the official languages.
I remember a recent football match between Egypt and Cameroon with
announcements being made in French and English.
A.