Bislama - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Borrowed from Bislama Bislama, from French bêche-de-mer (“sea cucumber”). In the mid-nineteenth century, sea cucumbers were harvested and dried at the same time that sandalwood was gathered. The name came to be associated with the kind of pidgin speech that was used by the local laborers between themselves, as well as their English-speaking overseers.
Bislama
- A creole language spoken on the South Pacific island-nation of Vanuatu, derived from Indo-European (mainly from English) and Oceanic languages.
a creole spoken on the South Pacific island-nation of Vanuatu
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: բիսլամա (bislama)
- Bislama: Bislama
- Chinese:
- Dutch: Bislama (nl) n
- Faroese: bislama n
- Finnish: bislama (fi)
- French: bichelamar (fr) m
- Georgian: ბისლამა (bislama)
- German: Bislama (de) n
- Greek: Μπισλάμα f (Bisláma)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: Bioslaimis f
- Italian: bislama (it)
- Japanese: ビスラマ語 (ja) (Bisurama-go)
- Malay: bahasa Bislama
- Portuguese: bislama, bislamá (pt) m
- Russian: бислама (ru) (bislama)
- Spanish: bislama (es) m
- Swahili: please add this translation if you can
- Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: ภาษาบิสลามา (paasăa bìtlaamaa)
- Ukrainian: біслама f (bislama)
- ISO 639-1 code bi, ISO 639-3 code bis (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Bislama, bis
From French bêche-de-mer (“sea cucumber”).
Bislama
- the Bislama language
Probably borrowed from English Bislama, from Bislama Bislama, from French bêche-de-mer (“sea cucumber”).
Bislama n
- the Bislama language [from 1980s]