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Bislama: History, Grammar & Name

Bislama (English: /ˈbɪsləmɑː/ BISS-lə-mah; Bislama: ; also known by its earlier French name, bichelamar ) is an English-based creole language. It is the national language of Vanuatu, and one of the three official languages of the country, the other ones being English and French. Bislama is the first language of many of the "Urban ni-Vanuatu" (citizens…

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Bislama topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Grammar and Name as prominent areas in the source structure around Bislama.

Related topics: 46
Source areas: 6
Connected nodes: 52
Extracted relationships: 184
Concept neighborhoods: 17
Bridge connections: 52

What this topic covers Research coverage

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Grammar · 13 topics

History · 11 topics

Overview · 9 topics

Name · 6 topics

Orthography · 6 topics

Sample texts and media · 1 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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ELP: VU
Glottolog: bisl1239
ISO 639-1: bi
ISO 639-2: bis
ISO 639-3: bis
Language family: PacificMelanesian PidginBislama · Melanesian PidginBislama · Bislama

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Overview

Name

Sea cucumber Holothuroidea
Harvested and dried Sea cucumbers as food
Sandalwood
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jack London
South Sea Tales South Sea Tales (1911)

History

Orthography

NG Velar nasal
Labialized consonants Labialization
Macron Macron (diacritic)
Pentecost Pentecost Island
Avoiuli
Logograms Logogram

Grammar

Transitive verbs Transitive verb
Vowel harmony
Tense, aspect and mood
Personal pronouns Personal pronoun
Clusivity
Decline Grammatical case
Predicate Predicate (grammar)
Verbal phrase Verb phrase
Progressive Progressive aspect
Past tense
Perfective Perfective aspect
Irrealis
Conditional sentences

Sample texts and media

Bible

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How Bislama connects Entity context

The extracted context around Bislama shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Bislama → A-57, Alexandre, An Illustrated Bislama-English, Beach-la-Mar, Berlin, Bislama Reference Grammar, Camden, Charpentier, Clarendon Press, Creole Linguistics, Creoles, Crowley, Current Issues, Darrell, Development, Egalitarian, English-Bislama Dictionary, France, François, Growth Another extracted example is Bislama → Australian National University, Bislama Archived, Bislama Language Lessons Archived, Bislama Preabuk, Bislama Translator, Bislama WikipediaBislama, BislamaA, BislamaBook, BislamaParadisec, Book, Common Prayer, Corps, Daily Post, English, Microsoft Word English, Mormon, MS Word, Spelling Dictionary, Vanuatu, Wayback Machine. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Bislama

Top relations

related to Further reading · 73

Bislama → A-57, Alexandre, An Illustrated Bislama-English, Beach-la-Mar, Berlin, Bislama Reference Grammar, Camden, Charpentier, Clarendon Press, Creole Linguistics, Creoles, Crowley, Current Issues, Darrell, Development, Egalitarian, English-Bislama Dictionary, France, François, Growth

related to External links · 21

Bislama → Australian National University, Bislama Archived, Bislama Language Lessons Archived, Bislama Preabuk, Bislama Translator, Bislama WikipediaBislama, BislamaA, BislamaBook, BislamaParadisec, Book, Common Prayer, Corps, Daily Post, English, Microsoft Word English, Mormon, MS Word, Spelling Dictionary, Vanuatu, Wayback Machine

related to history · 18

Bislama → Although, Australia, During, English, European, Fiji, Knowledge, New Hebrides, Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Pijin, Queensland, Solomon Islands, This, Tok Pisin, Torres Strait Creole, Vanuatu, With

related to Orthography · 15

Bislama → AE, AI, An, AO, AU, AÏ, AÜ, For, Labialized, Latin, MW, NG, PW, The Bislama Latin, Vanuatu

related to Name · 14

Bislama → Beach-la-Mar, Bichelamar, English, English-speaking, French, In, In Jack London's, Pacific, Portuguese, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sandalwood English, South Sea Tales, The, Yah

related to Dialectal variations · 7

Bislama → Dialects, English, For, French, French-based, In, Preferences

related to Verbs · 6

Bislama → English, For, French, If, The, Verbs

related to Pronouns · 4

Bislama → English, The, They, Tok Pisin

Language family · 3

Bislama → Bislama, Melanesian PidginBislama, PacificMelanesian PidginBislama

related to Grammar · 3

Bislama → English, French, Two

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Important terminology

english language vanuatu languages also long used french pidgin creole vocabulary written word national pacific 10 doi blong new suffix

Bislama relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 184 structured relationships around Bislama. Examples in this analysis include Bislama → ELP → VU and Bislama → Glottolog → bisl1239. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Bislama	ELP	VU	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Glottolog	bisl1239	1.00	infobox
Bislama	ISO 639-1	bi	1.00	infobox
Bislama	ISO 639-2	bis	1.00	infobox
Bislama	ISO 639-3	bis	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Language family	PacificMelanesian PidginBislama	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Language family	Melanesian PidginBislama	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Language family	Bislama	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Linguasphere	52-ABB-ce	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Native speakers	10,000 (2011) 200,000 L2 speakers[citation needed]	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Native to	Vanuatu	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Official language in	Vanuatu	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Pronunciation	[biˈslama]	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Region	Vanuatu	1.00	infobox
Bislama	Writing system	Latin, Avoiuli (local)	1.00	infobox
Bislama	is a	first language of many of the	0.90	text
Bislama	is a	Bible completed in 1998.Yumi	0.90	text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Bislama bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Language, English and French. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Bislama
- Language
- English
- French
- Also
- Vanuatu
- Creole
- Although
- Word
- Languages
- Avoiuli
- Bichelamar
- Grammar
bislama
- Language
- English
- French
- Also
- Vanuatu
- Creole
- Although
- Word
- Languages
- Avoiuli
- Bichelamar
- Grammar
english-based creole language
- Name
- Pidgin
- Avoiuli
- Vanuatu
- Blong
- Country
- National
- French
- Grammar
- Ni-vanuatu
- Official
- Latin
languages of vanuatu
- Vanuatu
- Vocabulary
- Official
- Country
- Indigenous
- One
- Well
- Pacific
- Word
- Country's
- Ni-vanuatu
- Although
torres strait creole
- Name
- Pidgin
- Avoiuli
- Blong
- Vanuatu
- French
- Grammar
- Ni-vanuatu
- Official
- Country
- Latin
- Local
avoiuli
- Bichelamar
- Name
- Blong
- Creole
- Grammar
- Official
- Latin
- Local
- Pronouns
- Tense
- Verbs
- Pacific
vanuatu
- Well
- Pacific
- Word
- Avoiuli
- Name
- Ni-vanuatu
- Blong
- Latin
- Local
- Words
- New
- Vocabulary
name
- Avoiuli
- Blong
- Official
- Latin
- Local
- Pronouns
- Tense
- Verbs
- Pacific
- Word
- Pidgin
- Written

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Bislama, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Bislama with Grammar. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Bislama — Grammar · splits 39 ⟂ 14

Bislama — History · splits 41 ⟂ 12

Bislama — Overview · splits 43 ⟂ 10

Bislama — Name · splits 46 ⟂ 7

Bislama — Orthography · splits 46 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Bislama

Nodes53

Edges52

Triples184

Avg. degree1.96

Density0.037736

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Bislama to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Grammar & Name, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Bislama · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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