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Tayo, also known as patois de Saint-Louis, is a French-based Creole spoken in New Caledonia. It is the community language
of one village, Saint-Louis, which is situated approximately 17 kilometres from the capital Noumea. From 1860 Saint-Louis
was a Marist mission that attracted groups of Melanesians speaking a number of mutually incomprehensible languages to the
mission schools or seminary. Saint-Louis was also an important agricultural centre and the Marists were noted for their production
of sugar and rum. Workers from various ethnic and social backgrounds, including people from Vanuatu, French Polynesia, Réunion
island in the Indian Ocean, India, Malaysia, Java and as far away as West Africa and the West Indies, as well thousands of
French convicts worked the land in and around the mission. Tayo emerged by about 1920 out of a need for a language of inter-ethnic
communication. Its lexicon is drawn mainly from French (the French of the Marists, of the convicts and possibly from the varieties
of Reunion creole spoken by the planters and indentured workers who came into contact with the Kanaks of Saint-Louis). Its
grammar and syntax are strongly influenced by the Melanesian languages of the early inhabitants but structures also have congruence
with varieties of French and, to some extent, with Reunion creole. |
Names (more)[en] Tayo language[fr] Tayo [ja] タヨ語 [ko] 타요 [ru] Тайо |
Language type : Living
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