The First Dispersal
The Second Dispersal
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Fortune
100
The Puritan settlement in the New World in 1620
What is Plymouth (Rock)?
100
The part of Africa without permanent settlements by the British, where contact was primarily based on trade
What is West Africa?
100
A simple contact language between two or more people who do not share a common language
What is pidgin
100
tenkyu
What is thank you?
100
A synonym to the word 'dispersal'
What is 'diaspora'?
200
The main type of settlers from Britain to Australia from its discovery and until 1852
What are convicts?
200
The part of Africa which was extensively settled by the British following a number of explorations
What is East Africa?
200
A language spoken by people who grow up in an environment where people of different linguistic background communicate in several different languages
What is a creole language?
200
Wanem nem blong yu?
What is what is your name?
200
The ship transporting the first wave of Puritans to the New World
What is the Mayflower?
300
The first permanent settlement of the British in the New World anno 1607
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
300
The decade during which most British colonies in Africa gained their independence
What is the 1960s?
300
A language that results from people of different geographical and therefore linguistic backgrounds who begin to blend and socialise
What is dialect mixing/hybrid language?
300
yu stap gut?
What is How are you doing?
300
The native peoples of Australia and New Zealand
What are Aboriginals and Maori?
400
The explorer who discovered Autralia in 1770
Who is James Cook?
400
A term used about the status of the English language in East Africa as a neutral language employed by groups of different linguistic backgrounds
What is lingua franca?
400
Two words incorporated into the English language as a result of the meeting with the Natives of America
What is papoose, moccasin and igloo?
400
Lukim yu bihain
What is See you later?
400
Thomas Babington Macauley's text on Indian education written in 1835
What is 'Minute of Education'?
500
The year in which New Zealand officially became a British colony
What is 1840?
500
The Indian name for the period of British Sovereignty over India lasting from 1765 until 1947
What is 'the Raj'?
500
A pidgin/creole/hybrid language mentioned in the text
What is Krio, Cameroon Pidgin, Tok Pisin
500
Yu save toktok long tok pisin?
What is Do you speak tok pisin??
500
The geographical name for Australia, New Zealand, and Melanesia
What is Australasia?
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