Bislama

Bislama

See also: bislama

English

Alternative forms

• Beach-la-Mar, Bichelama (dated)
• Bichelamar

Etymology

Borrowed from Bislama Bislama, from French bêche-de-mer (“sea cucumber”). In the mid-nineteenth century, sea cucumbers were harvested and dried at the same time that sandalwood was gathered. The name came to be associated with the kind of pidgin speech that was used by the local laborers between themselves, as well as their English-speaking overseers.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪʃləmɑː/

Proper noun

Bislama

1. A creole language spoken on the South Pacific island-nation of Vanuatu, derived from Indo-European (mainly from English) and Oceanic languages.

Translations

a creole spoken on the South Pacific island-nation of Vanuatu

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: բիսլամա (bislama) Bislama: Bislama Dutch: Bislama (nl) n Faroese: bislama n Finnish: bislama (fi) French: bichelamar (fr) m German: Bislama (de) n Greek: Μπισλάμα f (Bisláma) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: bislama (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Malay: bahasa Bislama Portuguese: bislama Russian: бислама (ru) (bislama) Spanish: bislama (es) m Swahili: please add this translation if you can Tagalog: please add this translation if you can Thai: ภาษาบิสลามา (paasăa bìtlaamaa) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Category:Bislama language
• pidgin

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code bi, ISO 639-3 code bis (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Bislama, bis ⁠

Anagrams

• Baalism, sambali

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Bislama

Etymology

From French bêche-de-mer (“sea cucumber”).

Proper noun

Bislama

1. the Bislama language

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Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English Bislama, from Bislama Bislama, from French bêche-de-mer (“sea cucumber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪs.laː.maː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Bis‧la‧ma

Proper noun

Bislama n

1. the Bislama language [from 1980s]