Bislama

are dying because of the encroachment of Bislama, a creole language of English, on the other native languages. Some languages such as Aore, Ifo, Sowa, and Volow have no speakers at all in recent years because of the rise of Bislama, but they are not labeled as extinct yet. The indigenous language spoken by the most number of people within the Republic of Vanuatu is Lenakel, located on Tanna, which is an island in the Tafea province (Ethnologue). The apicolabials in these languages, however, are not consistently in use among the different languages in Vanuatu. This example demonstrates that apicolabials are used in plosives, nasals and fricatives (Maddieson 1987). (2) Linguo-labials, bilabials and alveolars in V’enen Taut Linguo-labial Bilabial Alveolar Plosive (initial) [p̪atel] [pətək] [tatel] ‘breadfruit’ ‘my head’ ‘father’ Nasal (medial) [nəm̪ək] [nəmək] [nani] ‘my tongue’ ‘my spirit’ ‘goat’ Fricative (medial) [naβ̪at] [naβ̪al] (voiceless only) ‘stone’ ‘songfest’ Cross-linguistic analyses of the different languages of Vanuatu have shown that apicolabials had most likely began as labials and had shifted to apicolabials. As Lynch (2005) quotes Ross Clark in his 1985 article about the languages of north and central Vanuatu, he explains that what most likely occurred was that apicolabials began as labials, but then shifted to either back to labials or to dentals and alveolars as the Bislama language encroached on other languages and…

policemen to know what they are talking about and also their sons and daughters use the same way of taking in their life. Another example is the" Sawahely" as they said: *كيف الاحوال (كيف حالك) : حالي ياكو * ميمي نميكوسيه : انا غلطانه / غلطان * نجو : تعال / تعالي *ساهاوا : نسيت من السهو * نيندا: روح - اذهب * نكويندا : انا ساير (رايح) *كا : اجلس - اقعد : Creole Languages around the world Also, There are some Creole…