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 Post subject: Re: Mixing Languages
PostPosted: Wed 30 May 2012, 03:34 
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eldin raigmore wrote:
Solarius wrote:
If you make a creole, keep in mind that it will probably end up as SVO, isolating, and analytic no matter the parent languages. For instance, Chinuk Wawa's parents were the highly polysynthetic languages of the Pacific Northwest, but they gave birth to an isolating language.

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Also worth considering is Kituba, which has retained Bantu noun classes and tenses. Its superstrates were Kongo languages, so it's not surprising.

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