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Many issues (but not all of them)\n  are translated into lots of underresourced languages.\n* [Vanuatu Daily Post](http://www.dailypost.vu/), mostly in English but has some short articles in Bislama\n* [Vanuatu Daily Digest](https://vanuatudaily.wordpress.com/), a blog summarizing news from Vanuatu;  \n  lots of links to local media outlets, blogs etc. (mostly English, though)\n\n\n## Corpora\n\nI couldn't find any compiled corpora, but here are some sources to get you started:\n\n* [The bible in Bislama](http://www.bible.is/BISBSP/Matt/1)\n* [Jehovah’s Witnesses website in Bislama](http://www.jw.org/bi)\n* [Tweets in Bislama](http://indigenoustweets.com/bi/) and [blog posts in Bislama](http://indigenoustweets.com/blogs/bi/) from [Indigenous Tweets](http://indigenoustweets.com/)\n* [Primary texts in Bislama](http://www.language-archives.org/language/bis), compiled by the [Open Language Archives Community](http://www.language-archives.org)\n* [Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Bislama](http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=bcy)\n* [Wikipedia in Bislama](http://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia), 480+ articles\n* [Speech recordings in Bislama](http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/pangloss/tools/list_rsc_en.php?lg=Bislama\u0026aff=bislama) from the [Pangloss Collection](http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/pangloss/index_en.htm)\n* [Working Together in Vanuatu: Research Histories, Collaborations, Projects and Reflections](http://press.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/Working+Together+in+Vanuatu%3A+Research+Histories%2C+Collaborations%2C+Projects+and+Reflections/7241/Text/upfront.html), an ebook (HTML) about fieldwork in Vanuatu, with some chapters available in English and Bislama\n* [Yumi Toktok Stret](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yumi-Toktok-Stret/499289030134214) ('we talk straight') is said to be Vanuatus biggest Facebook group,  \n  its discussions (mostly in Bislama) are archived and categorized in the [Yumi Toktok Stret Opinions](https://yumitoktokstret.wordpress.com/) blog\n\n\n## Dictionaries, word lists etc.\n\n* [Bislama spelling dictionary](http://www.bislama.org/bislama-dictionary), available for MS Word and Firefox (6500 words)\n* the same [spelling dictionary](http://www.bislama.org/images/dictionary/BislamaSpellingDictionary-v1.1.pdf) as a list   in PDF format with coarse-grained POS tags and English translations for each word (both licensed under GPLv2)\n* [Bislama word frequency lists](http://crubadan.org/ws/bi.html) (unigrams, bigrams and character trigrams)  \n  from the [An Crúbadán](http://crubadan.org/index.html) project\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Farne-cl%2Fbislama-resources","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Farne-cl%2Fbislama-resources","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Farne-cl%2Fbislama-resources/lists"}