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During the period known as Blackbirding, in the 1870s and 1880s, hundreds of thousands of Pacific islanders (many of them from the New Hebrides archipelago) were enslaved and forced to work on plantations, mainly in Queensland, Australia and Fiji. With several languages being spoken in these plantations, a pidgin was formed, combining English vocabulary with grammatical structures typical of languages in the region. This<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=76391 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr> | During the period known as Blackbirding, in the 1870s and 1880s, hundreds of thousands of Pacific islanders (many of them from the New Hebrides archipelago) were enslaved and forced to work on plantations, mainly in Queensland, Australia and Fiji. With several languages being spoken in these plantations, a pidgin was formed, combining English vocabulary with grammatical structures typical of languages in the region. This<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=76391 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr> | ||
<tr><td><h2>Location of Bislama Language Speakers</h2> | <tr><td><h2>Location of Bislama Language Speakers</h2> | ||
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2> | <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2> |
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