Quiz/lhaksta kEmtEks?

[Mike Cleven]

>From: David Robertson <drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG>
>Reply-To: David Robertson <drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG>
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: Quiz/lhaksta kEmtEks?
>Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 20:51:29 -0700
>
>Qhata mayka?
>
>Qhanchi hayu dret IlI7i mayka kEmtEks, lhaska tayi-tIlIXEm wawa
>"pIjIn/kriyol nEsayka wawa"?
>
>How many sovereign nations can you name whose official languages are
>pidgins or creoles?
>
>
>Nayka tEmtEm lakEt or manak'i hayu...
>
>I think there are at least four...

Isn't Swahili a creole, or something like one; Arabic-Bantu?  At least it
started out as one.  If it falls under the definition of "creole or pidgin"
then there's a bunch of countries, I think, for which it's an official
language......

MC
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