Kriol
Facts
- Language: Kriol
- Alternate names: Roper-Bamyili Creole
- Language code: rop
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, North Sea Germanic, Anglo-Frisian, Anglic, Later Anglic, Middle-Modern English, Macro-English, Pacific Creole English
- Creole language
- Number of speakers: 10000
- Script:
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Introduction
Kriol is an Australian creole language that developed initially in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales in the early days of White colonisation, and then moved west and north with White and Black stockmen and others.
Both Kriol and Torres Strait Creole are spreading and are nearly overlapping in Queensland.
The verb
Despite the language's similarities to English in vocabulary, it has a distinct syntactic structure and grammar, and is, therefore, a language in its own right.
Tenses are distinguished by particles;
- Present tense doesn't have any markers
- Past tense is marked by bin 'been'
- Future tense is marked by garra 'will'
Verbs can take various affixes to denote direction and aspect.
Sample Sentences
| Kriol | English |
|---|---|
| wi go rait thru | we'll go straight there without stopping |
| gidim bodo | take a picture |
| grajim meinggo tri | dig up a mango tree |
| Dei bin wajam garra1 hos | They washed it with a hose |
Notes: 1 garra means 'with' here.
Verblist
- album
- banijim
- gidkot
- gilim
- guna
- jabi
- jendap
- jidan
- jingat
- kaman
- kilim
- ringap
- shuda
- sidan