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Arts & humanities : Languages & linguistics
Multilingualism and Intercultural Studies
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/29031
Entre français calédonien et langue kanak : quelle place pour le tayo ? Une approche écolinguistique
French
Ehrhart, Sabine[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS) >]
[en] language contact ; creole languages ; language ecology of New Caledonia
[en] Tayo is a contact language spoken in and around Saint-Louis tribe in Southern New Caledonia. It shows at the same time common features with standard French or other regional varieties of French and French Creoles in other parts of the globe and also syntactical and semantic elements close to some Melanesian languages. This article tries to give a clearer definition of its position as a go-between, mediator or facilitator in the contact between groups of very diverse origins. This creole experience could well serve as an example for the management of linguistic and cultural diversity in other contexts.