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	My brother speaks Norfuk, but his cow just moos - National - smh.com.au
		The language, one of the world's rarest, is under threat because Norfolk Islanders are increasingly marrying outsiders and because of the influence of television and radio from Australia and New Zealand.
		In the past, children were punished for speaking Norfuk, which was regarded as a backward patois.
		A few pages of the island's newspaper are translated from English into Norfuk and there are plans to build a cultural centre that will showcase the language.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/my-brother-speaks-norfuk-but-his-cow-just-moos/2007/08/23/1187462441768.html (701 words)

	Norfuk language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norfuk (increasingly spelled Norfolk) is the language spoken on Norfolk Island by the local residents.
		It is a blend of English of the 1700s and Tahitian originally introduced by Pitcairnese -speaking settlers from the Pitcairn Islands.
		As mentioned above, Norfuk is descended predominantly from the Pitkern (Pitcairnese or Pi'kern) spoken by settlers from the Pitcairn Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norfuk (417 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Save our dialect, say Bounty islanders
		To outsiders the creole, known as Norfuk, is almost incomprehensible, although pronouncing words slowly helps untangle their meaning.
		Norfuk has been in retreat for decades because of television, radio, marriages to English speakers and the visits of tourists.
		Now, to halt its decline, the island's nine-member legislative assembly has declared Norfuk an official language, alongside English, and its 400 children are being taught it in school.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/19/waust19.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/19/ixworld.html (265 words)

	Norfuk language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Norfuk (increasingly spelled Norfolk) is the (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language spoken on (An island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia; formerly a British penal colony) Norfolk Island by the local residents.
		Some Islanders believe that the only solution is to create a committee charged with creating (Click link for more info and facts about new words) new words in Norfuk rather than simply adopting English words for new technological advances.
		A report sourced from the Daily Telegraph in the (Click link for more info and facts about Dominion Post) Dominion Post of 21 April 2005 (page B3)stated that such a declaration had just been made.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/N/No/Norfuk_language.htm (333 words)

	Norfuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The language itself does not have words to express many concepts and therefore qualifies as a Cant, similar to a Pidgin.
		Efforts are being made, however, to restore the language to more common usage - with the publication of English-Norfuk dictionaries and the renaming of some tourist attractions (most notably the rainforest walk "A Trip Ina Stik") to their Norfuk equivalents.
		Norfuk recently expanded to include the word "Kompyuuta," a Norfuk-ised version of "Computer."
	www.peacelink.de /keyword/Norfuk.php (199 words)

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