| 单词 | Krio |
| 释义 | Krio|ˈkriːəʊ|
[Native name.]
An English-based Creole language in Sierra Leone. Also attrib. or as adj.
1955P. Strevens Papers in Lang. (1965) ix. 116 There is the Freetown Krio, an English-based language, containing many borrowings from Yoruba. 1957M. Banton W. Afr. City i. 6 The Creoles..developed a distinctive dialect version of the English language, known as Krio, which incorporates Portuguese, African, and other loan words, has an African rather than a European syntax, and is incomprehensible to the untrained English ear. Krio is to be distinguished from the native pidgin. Ibid. ix. 166 Geda is the Krio form of the English ‘together’. 1961Guardian 16 Feb. 6/4 Krio, the special Creole patois spoken in Sierra Leone. 1963Ann. Reg. 1962 452 The threat of a collapse into a dialect deriving from English but not easily understood, a dialect less accessible than the base but genuine lingua franca of ‘Pidgin’: Krio, the language spoken at Freetown, was an example. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-Europ. Lang. 119 Creole English has also developed in West Africa. Krio ‘Creole’, centred on Freetown, Sierra Leone, is of complex origin. |
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