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  Aboriginal English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Krio is an English-based creole spoken mainly in Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Krio linguists are now trying to reverse the trend by encouraging the use of Mesolect and Basilect varieties, as a means of preserving Krio and slowing down, if not halting, the continued influence of English.
Krio was not considered because of its small base of native speakers (about 10% or less of the population).
www.une.edu.au /langnet/krio.htm   (2344 words)

  
 Krio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Krio is a language used by 4,000,000 speakers in Sierra Leone.
Mother tongue Krio speakers are mainly descendents of repatriated slaves fro Jamaica.
The Krios, descendants of freed slaves living primarily in Freetown, comprise two percent of the population.
www.flw.com /languages/krio.htm   (88 words)

  
 Krio/Pidgin (Cluster) Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU)
Krio is spoken in Sierra Leone and also around Banjul in the Gambia, as well as on the island of Ngueyma Byogo in Equatorial Guinea.
Pidgin is spoken in Cameroon, the southeast quadrant of Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo.
Krio is an official language of Sierra Leone and has wide usage as a second language.
www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Krio_root.html   (276 words)

  
 Krio - Index
Krio must be run as root, or SUID root because the functions which communicate with the rio use direct io access.
Krio is being developed using KDE 1.1.2, Qt 1.42, glibc 2.1.2, and compiled using egcs-2.95.2.
Krio is based on the command line utility written by the Snowblind Alliance.
krio.sourceforge.net   (255 words)

  
 The Head Heeb: Krio and the courts
Krio, like the languages that are described elsewhere as "creoles" or "pidgins," is an amalgam of standard English, colloquial English and tribal languages.
In Sierra Leone, Krio is the mother tongue of about a tenth of the nation's population, and is a first language among descendants of slaves and detribalized urban residents.
The official language of Sierra Leone is not Krio or the widely spoken tribal languages of Mende and Themne, but English.
headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/014761.html   (1087 words)

  
 Krio Translation Service - English to Krio Translation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
You probably don't speak Krio yourself, so there are a few questions you'll need to consider when choosing a translation company.
Krio and Jamaican Creole, and Krio and Sea Islands Creole may have some interintelligibility.
First-language Krio speakers are mainly descendants of repatriated slaves from Jamaica.
www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/krio_translation.shtml   (488 words)

  
 Substratal Influence on the Morphosyntactic Properties of Krio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Krio is an English-derived creole that is used as a lingua franca in Sierra Leone, but is the native language of a small percentage (estimated to be about 10% or less) of the population of the country living primarily in the Western Area peninsula (including Freetown).
Krio does exhibit some of the apparent universals evident in early language development including preverbal negation without the use of an auxiliary, multiple negation involving indefinite pronouns, no inversion in Yes/No questions (intonation distinguishes a question from a statement), and a general lack of inflectional morphology.
Though there are two conflicting accounts on the origins of Krio, they both agree on one thing: during the process of the development and restructuring of Krio, the language was influenced by properties of substrate languages, either indirectly through the creoles from the Americas, or directly through the linguistic input of the Liberated Africans.
journals.dartmouth.edu /cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/1/article/266?htmlOnce=yes   (6559 words)

  
 The Pidgins and Creoles in Education (PACE) Newsletter
And it was as late as 1993 that Krio was made a core subject at the junior secondary level.
The author points out that even though Krio is the mother tongue of only 2% of the population, it is an important lingua franca in the country.
But the opposition to speaking Krio is based partly on the conviction that Krio is a bastardized form of English, a ‘patois’ or, as some older Krio call it, ‘broken English’;, which will present a worrying distortion of the English being taught at school.
www.hawaii.edu /satocenter/pace/8-special.htm   (2570 words)

  
 OHCHR: Krio () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Krio is spoken by communities in Freetown, on the Peninsula, Banana Islands, York Island and by de-tribalized Sierra Leoneans as the lingua franca throughout the country.
Half speak Krio in the workplace and it is the formal language for those who do not speak english.
Wi de tɛl plɛnti tɛnki to di posin we tɔn di inglish languej to krio, di wan we hɛp fɔ chɛk di wok ɛn di man we drɔ dɛm pikchɔ, Adams, Bangura, ɛn Miss Patience Bɔknɔr we tayp
www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/kri.htm   (1955 words)

  
 Welcome at cottage house Krio Pigadi
Situated in the forest of Skiathos with complete peace, quiet and privacy, "Krio Pigadi" Cottage offers excellent accommodation in an outstanding location with spectacular view.
Just 15 minutes drive from the town and port of Skiathos and the same distance to all the major beaches, it is also close to the secluded beaches of Lechouni, Megas Gialos and Xanemos.
"Krio Pigadi" Cottage is in the area of Aghios Dimitris on the way from the Monastery of Evagelistria to the Church of Profitis Ilias.
www.skiathos.gr /html/advert/krio_pigadi/index_en.htm   (194 words)

  
 NYITÓOLDAL - Krio ZRt.
A KRIO Intézet a fagyasztott köldökzsinórvérből származó őssejt minták tárolását a nemzetközi előírások (NETCORD) alapján és a BAZ Megyei kórház Gyermekhematológiai és Csontvelőtranszplantációs Osztályának (GYECSO) szakmai felügyelete alatt végzi.
A KRIO Intézet hímivarsejtek (spermiumok, ondósejtek, sperma, spermasejtek) valamint köldökzsinórvér eredetű őssejtek (köldökvér őssejt, kzsv őssejt, sejtbank, köldökzsinórvér bank, őssejtbank, hemopoetikus őssejt) fagyasztásával, és tárolásával foglalkozik.
KRIO Institute deals with cryopreservation (deep freezing, cryobank, spermbank) of sperm cells (gametes, human semen, sperms) and umbilical cord blood cells (stem cells).
www.krio.hu   (327 words)

  
 Krio language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the 1960s, Thomas Decker translated some of Shakespeare's plays into Krio, and composed original poetry in the language.
The New York City Public School system recently recognized the Krio language as a "home language" allowing children to be recognized as speaking Krio rather than other African languages.
Krio is used early in the 2006 film Blood Diamond between the Danny Archer (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and a character named Commander Zero.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Krio_language   (837 words)

  
 Krio - News
After well over a year without any relases, Krio 1.2.0 has been released with support for KDE 2.0.
Krio has now moved to sourceforge and version 1.0 (now with autoconf!) is going to be released soon.
I added a page with information about how people (who are so inclined) can contribute to Krio.
krio.sourceforge.net /news.php   (628 words)

  
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In The Krio of Sierra Leone: An Interpretative History, author Akintola Wyse embarks on an insightful study of Krio history that examines the formative influences on the Krio people and their impact on the decline of their fortunes in post-independence Sierra Leone.
With an outlook largely shaped by the initial settlers of Freetown, Sierra Leone, who saw themselves as civilizing agents, the Krio pioneered as missionaries, educators, linguists, and civil servants—manning the middle levels of the colonial civil service throughout West Africa.
Although the Krio have been criticized for undermining traditional African culture, this historical overview demonstrates that their contributions have actually helped West African peoples cope with changing sociopolitical dynamics.
www.hupress.howard.edu /huclassics/krio.htm   (149 words)

  
 Welcome to Krio Kush
Krio Krush is committed to providing the highest quality, hand picked, natural ingredients for spice seasonings and herb blends especially designed for the food industry.
Krio offers a complete range of Quality seasonings, herbs and spices packaged to suit all users.
Krio Krush products are packed to order ensuring freshness, true aroma and quality.
www.kriokrush.com.au /products.htm   (173 words)

  
 Krio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Krio Institute Cell and Tissue Bank) a frozen sperm and umbilical cord cell bank in Budapest.
KRIO, the Polish acronym of the National Registration Authority of Poland (Krajowy Rejestr Identyfikatorów Obiektów).
Krio language entry in a linguistic thesaurus by the Royal Netherlands Insitute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Krio   (323 words)

  
 Welcome to Krio Kush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Krio Krush Basic Foods Pty Ltd was established in Sydney in 1987, we are a 100% Australian family owned and operated company, which services all sectors of the Food Industry from end users to food manufacturers.
We are considered one of the leading companies committed to the development and manufacture of spice seasonings, herb blends and ingredients.
Krio Krush is a HACCP accredited company; therefore you will receive a product in which you can be 100% confident in.
www.kriokrush.com.au /companyprofile.htm   (171 words)

  
 Krio - Some Krio words and phrases - Languages of Sierra Leone
The orthography uses phonetic symbols for some vowel sounds in krio.
Below is a guide to the pronunciation of the vowels of Krio.
Also, the velar nasal sound, ŋ, as in English ‘King,’ is used in Krio ‘fulɔp piŋ’ (full to the brim), and in Temne ‘kʌ lɛŋ’ (to grow grey hair).
www.visitsierraleone.org /krio.asp   (158 words)

  
 Krio strona główna
KRIO jest najwyższym organem rejestracji obiektów w Polsce zdefiniowanym przez standard ISO/IEC 9834-1.
Zgodnie z zaleceniami, role administracyjne i techniczne są w KRIO pełnione przez różne podmioty organizacyjne.
Podstawowym celem Krajowego Rejestru Identyfikatorów Obiektów (KRIO) jest dbanie o to, aby w kraju zawsze były dostępne wystarczające zasoby nazw wykorzystywanych do identyfikacji dowolnych typów obiektów, rejestrowanych w oparciu o drzewo rejestracji.
www.krio.pl /krio/main.xml   (82 words)

  
 Umeå Krio Research Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Umeå Krio Research Centre (UKRC) is a unit within the English section of the Department of Modern Languages at Umeå University in the north of Sweden.
primary goal at present is the development of a digitalized database of Krio materials for research and other purposes.
The overall objective behind the establishment of the UKRC is to encourage the study of, and promote interest in, the Krio language, Krio culture and Krio literature.
www.krio.db.umu.se   (83 words)

  
 The Chronicle - Krio architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Chronicle is pleased to exhibit these unique examples of Krio architecture in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The styles shown originate with the Krio or Creole peoples.
Their buildings integrate various components of their previous housing experiences (Caribbean re: air-circulation, for instance) From these rudimentary origins Freetown was built during the period of British colonial administration".
www.chronicleworld.org /archive/krioarch.htm   (147 words)

  
 Africa Book Centre Limited Krio
The fifth volume in a series to further the study of the Krio language and Krio literature. This play by Lawrence Quaku Woode is reproduced fully in Krio and includes and introduction in English.; 42pp, SWEDEN. UMEA UNIVERSITY, No ISBN
The fourth volume in a series to further the study of the Krio language and Krio literature. This play is a translation by Thomas Decker of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Includes a preface by the author, notes on the play and an introduction about the series in English.; 94pp, SWEDEN. UMEA UNIVERSITY, No ISBN
The third volume in a series to further the study of the Krio language and Krio literature. This play by Esther Taylor Pearce is a retelling of a bible story and is reproduced fully in Krio. Includes introduction in English discussing the series and Krio orthography. 48pp, SWEDEN. UMEA UNIVERSITY, No ISBN
www.africabookcentre.com /acatalog/Krio.html   (146 words)

  
 COTTAGE "KRIO PIGATHI"
Situated in the forest of Skiathos with complete peace, quiet and privacy, Krio Pigathi Cottage offers excellent accommodation in an outstanding location with spectacular views.
Just 15 minutes drive from the town and port of Skiathos and the same distance to all the major beaches, it is also close to the secluded beaches of Lehouni, Megas Yialos and Xanemos.
"Krio Pigathi" Cottage is in the area of Aghios Dimitris on the way from the Monastery of Evangelistra to the Church of Profitis Ilias.
www.skiathosinfo.com /accomm/cottage.htm   (230 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Sierra Leone
A slightly modified form of Futa Jalon is known as Krio Fula with many loans from Sierra Leone languages.
Krio and Jamaican Creole, and Krio and Sea Islands Creole may have some interintelligibility; mother tongue Krio speakers are mainly descendents of repatriated slaves from Jamaica.
People have limited bilingualism in Krio or English in Sierra Leone.
www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Sier.html   (1361 words)

  
 Krio Bibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Krio is one of the languages of Sierra Leone (Africa).
You can purchase the Krio New Testament on audio cassette from Faith Comes By Hearing.
The "JESUS" Film, based on the Gospel of Luke, has been translated into Krio.
www.ethnicharvest.org /bibles/krio.htm   (88 words)

  
 Krio Proverbs and Stories - Sierra Leone Web
More than 400 proverbs in Krio from all over Sierra Leone.
Two stories, recorded in Sierra Leone and transcribed into phonetic Krio.
Proverbs from an anonymous compilation which circulated in Freetown in the early 1980s.
www.sierra-leone.org /proverbs.html   (43 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:kri
Possibly half the speakers use Krio in their workplace.
Taught as an elective from primary to college level.
This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=kri   (170 words)

  
 PanAfrLoc | PanAfrLoc / KrioPidgin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Krio (Krio and Jamaican Creole, and Krio and Sea Islands Creole may have some interintelligibility)
Pidgin, Cameroon (Wes Cos) (Similar to Krio of Sierra Leone and Pidgin English of various West African countries; probably an offshoot of 19th century Krio)
Pidginglis may be a separate language from Krio
www.bisharat.net /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/KrioPidgin   (470 words)

  
 index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
And without doubt, Krio, the English-based creole language, is by far the most important language in Sierra Leone as it is used in practically all domains of public life.
According to some researches, in 1999, 10% of the population are L1 speakers and 95% of the remainder are L2 speakers of Krio.
You are also invited to experience the culture of Sierra Leone, including poetry, music and food.
www.geocities.com /kakatseng   (178 words)

  
 SourceForge.net: Files
It uses the KDE and Qt libraries, and has support for drag'n'drop in KDE.
The current release for each package is shown.
View older releases from the krio package »
sourceforge.net /project/showfiles.php?group_id=5266   (88 words)

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