Bungi Creole

Spoken in

• Creole English- based bungee

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Bungee even Bungi (s) or Bungay mentioned, but also Red River Dialect, is / was a used by Canadian Métis in the province of Manitoba language. In contrast to the Métis of French ancestry who developed Michif, came from the speaker of the bungee by Scottish immigrants and Cree Indians. The language evolved from an English- based pidgin, which originally spoke fur and fur traders. For a long time the Cree language and lingua franca among the settlers in Manitoba, but was in the 19th century, steeped in the languages ​​of the Europeans. Bungee is accordingly a mixed language based on English, with strong discoloration of the Cree dialects. As the demographics of the settlers was inhomogeneous, penetrated extensive vocabulary from the Scottish - Gaelic and the Scots into the bungee before.

The language was a purely functional communication option among the inhabitants of the Red River of the North. After the colonial way of life was extinguished after about 1900, and the degree of creolization gradually stepped back. Although today are still typical bungee speech patterns and the original articulation and idioms in many places familiar, yet the language has the Canadian English so strongly resembled that one must speak of a Mesolekt. Nevertheless, there are still a few thousand, mostly elderly speakers whose English still shows a high proportion of Kreolismen.

The Métis with British ancestors were called Countryborn and they were, in contrast to the French-speaking Métis, not Catholic, but Anglican or Presbyterian. The first prime minister of Manitoba, John Norquay ( 1841-1889, in office 1878-1887 ) was an Anglo - Métis.