15 Facts About Bungi Creole

1.

Today, Bungi Creole has very few if any speakers and is potentially extinct.

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2.

Bungi Creole was spoken in the Lower Red River Colony in the area from The Forks to the mouth of the Red River at Lake Winnipeg.

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3.

Bungi Creole is unusual as a dialect in that for the Scottish immigrants and the First Nations who developed the dialect, English was often a second language.

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4.

Bungi Creole asserted that Bungee-speakers do not like to be recorded speaking the language because the First Nations values are that one should not call attention to oneself.

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5.

Sometime around the turn of the 20th century, the word Bungi Creole began to be used to refer to people of Scottish and First Nations ancestry.

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6.

Bungi Creole speakers reported that Bungi Creole uses Cree vowels and Scots consonants.

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7.

Blain notes that Bungi Creole was in a constant state of change that was evolving towards the local standard English.

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8.

Bungi Creole suggests that Anglo-Metis Manitoba Premier John Norquay, who was born near St Andrews in what was the Red River Colony and would have spoken Bungi, had dropped his accent by the time that he had entered politics.

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9.

Bungi Creole relapsed into the lingo and I mentioned the number of fisherman caught on the ice.

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10.

Bungi Creole got home from the fort one night a little worse for wear with acute indigestion.

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11.

Bungi Creole was just about to take the vot when that fellow Kiplun got up.

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12.

Bungi Creole included a few stories of nicknames, such as a family by the name of Johnstone who were christened with "Teapot" for their addiction to tea, which was more familiar and seen as a distinguishing mark for them.

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13.

Bungi Creole built the English tsarts you know on the cross side.

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14.

Bungi Creole built St Clements Mapleton church across the river.

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15.

Bungi Creole conducted a study of Bungi, and made a series of recordings known as the Bungee Collection.

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