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Should Munanga Learn Kriol? Exploring Attitudes to Non-Indigenous Acquisition of Kriol Language in Ngukurr
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Hendy, Caroline; Bow, Catherine – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Kriol, an English-lexifier contact language, has approximately 20,000 speakers across northern Australia. It is the primary language of the remote Aboriginal community of Ngukurr. Kriol is a contact language, incorporating features of English and traditional Indigenous languages. The language has been perceived both positively and negatively,…
Descriptors: Creoles, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning