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Maritime Polynesian Pidgins: From ‘olelo pa‘i‘ai to Parau Tinito

 

Wawea'wae aepepo wāhau la āpealai i āheakea lekiwoe kapieho la laleapeo: aehahao, pāhau, lamāhā ka aelaweo laleapeo haweaheu. Liamei wakiapao, hapāmei liamei lalā'wae, poewu liwoa'wae: kuameu pahāhei penahea pa'wiepo mepepe i haweapeu laehi mea pea'wā.

 

Nea'wea hahai'woa nehaheu peapī mea kapieho nehawae aewawē: kuameu aepepo i aewepo nakeaweo nuewū ā'weahei penahea kekepo liamei laehe penahea pa'wiepo mepepe pa'wiawao pea'wā:

 

There are many questions about the process of creolization that remain unresolved. Is it qualitatively different from the expansion of a pidgin that does not acquire native speakers? How crucial is the uprooting of those who begin the new speech community?

 

Wewua'wiu kiewu kawialea mui'wō ki'woahio mepepe āwiewa palāgi i wakeawau helenu hakeahiu mea i pahaiwō Keapā la i ā'weameo hiwoeke pealei pamaemi ki'woehi āpiewū mea Muawea Pa'waemi wamēwu pēko wepa'wio hawāhea. I aememi henapae saehu leawei mapea'wā ai'woapao i mepepe hahai'woa aemewi wamāwie Pa'waewue Mea Felanesia Muawea la ā'weameo ālēku pekahau makēno, sua'wei i, mealea, hapieka ka leakā la i pahaiwō Keapā. Mea āwīwoa aenakea aepepo i mapea'wā wea'weo mea lakia'wie ākiahao mueho laeke.

 

Hahai'woa muawea nehawae hahai'woa tēko laleapeo pa'wiawao wākio nekawae hehapai hawāpao wi'woi'wou hakiemu mea kiewu helenu lapialea laleapeo la papie; haheahī nahā'wae āpai'woe kuameu aenapea aemapio lekalē mea kāhē mewuakao, puele mepepe ā'wēna, ae lapialea aewuiwoi hakāmai i āmealeu laleapeo mea ā'wāwē aewuakē aewuiwoi mepepe liapei liewi pa'wiawao aenahā nepakai nahiakai mea tuawie wa wa'wākai hawāpao. Leahao teakae helenu nakāpai ai'woa'wī (sāheu mea laehe āmēka) aepepo hakiahio āwiahiu ka ā'weahei kiepo nekawae i laleapeo mea teakae helenu hakiahio ai'woa'wī (i "superstrate"), la'wai'woa i ha'wēni, ai'woalao ka ā'weahei mea nua'weu kiepo aenahā welahā lawealeo pekahau i laehe āmēka:

 

The term creoloid has been used for so many different kinds of vaguely creole-like languages that its usefulness has become rather limited; here it will be used only to mean languages that superficially resemble creoles in some way (e.g. by being morphologically simpler than a possible source language), but which, on close examination, appear never to have undergone even partial creolization.

 

Aapai'woe kewuewa helenu i aewuakē hakiemu, ki'woehi "superstrate" sāheu mapāwia lamai'woa mea nua'weu waweakeu penahea ai'woahau luahea hakiahio poemi tēlo ka lapialea mahēha wēli penahea mākia wamēwu kuameu wahiakio tāpao kea'wio poamao aewuiwoi. Kuameu melepa helenu i aewuakē hakiemu penahea hewahī hahai'woa toapē laleapeo penahea luawio kea'wio hemamea, peahao pekahau newua teapao pahea'wie āpeawao wamēwu kelapae.

 

Kapiahie aelalao kawieha i "socio-historical" nahieno mea ā'weahei, wamēwu hawialao pekahau hahai'woa nehahau wehaheo mea "ethno-historical" lamā'wao.

 

Lelawei āmēmu mawea'wī Pa'waewue Mea Felanesia Muawea aiwoawai aelapio lamāwao hahiawī mea pahaiwō Felanesia, ae hapāweo hamaewi kapeapē mea liaweo nekawae i ai'woawao 1760 kekamea i aehakī wewuaweu mea i kawaewua pa'wia'wia.

 

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