https://github.com/arne-cl/bislama-resources
Bislama language resources
https://github.com/arne-cl/bislama-resources
bislama corpora language language-resources underresourced-languages vanuatu
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Bislama language resources
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/arne-cl/bislama-resources
- Owner: arne-cl
- License: cc0-1.0
- Created: 2015-03-04T17:30:05.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-03-05T11:02:43.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-24T07:30:05.720Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: bislama, corpora, language, language-resources, underresourced-languages, vanuatu
- Size: 250 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# bislama-resources
Resources for the language Bislama (Bichelamar), an English-based creole,
which is one of the official languages of Vanuatu.
## Language learning
* [Pidginise your English](http://www.pentecostisland.net/languages/bislama/guide.htm), a short, written introduction
to the language for speakers of English
## Media
* [Liahona magazine in Bislama](https://www.lds.org/liahona/2014?lang=bis).
Liahona is a monthly religious magazine published by the Latter Day Saints. Many issues (but not all of them)
are translated into lots of underresourced languages.
* [Vanuatu Daily Post](http://www.dailypost.vu/), mostly in English but has some short articles in Bislama
* [Vanuatu Daily Digest](https://vanuatudaily.wordpress.com/), a blog summarizing news from Vanuatu;
lots of links to local media outlets, blogs etc. (mostly English, though)
## Corpora
I couldn't find any compiled corpora, but here are some sources to get you started:
* [The bible in Bislama](http://www.bible.is/BISBSP/Matt/1)
* [Jehovah’s Witnesses website in Bislama](http://www.jw.org/bi)
* [Tweets in Bislama](http://indigenoustweets.com/bi/) and [blog posts in Bislama](http://indigenoustweets.com/blogs/bi/) from [Indigenous Tweets](http://indigenoustweets.com/)
* [Primary texts in Bislama](http://www.language-archives.org/language/bis), compiled by the [Open Language Archives Community](http://www.language-archives.org)
* [Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Bislama](http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=bcy)
* [Wikipedia in Bislama](http://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia), 480+ articles
* [Speech recordings in Bislama](http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/pangloss/tools/list_rsc_en.php?lg=Bislama&aff=bislama) from the [Pangloss Collection](http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/pangloss/index_en.htm)
* [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
* [Yumi Toktok Stret](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yumi-Toktok-Stret/499289030134214) ('we talk straight') is said to be Vanuatus biggest Facebook group,
its discussions (mostly in Bislama) are archived and categorized in the [Yumi Toktok Stret Opinions](https://yumitoktokstret.wordpress.com/) blog
## Dictionaries, word lists etc.
* [Bislama spelling dictionary](http://www.bislama.org/bislama-dictionary), available for MS Word and Firefox (6500 words)
* 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)
* [Bislama word frequency lists](http://crubadan.org/ws/bi.html) (unigrams, bigrams and character trigrams)
from the [An Crúbadán](http://crubadan.org/index.html) project