'Pulau Panjan', 'Po Luo Chung', 'Pulau Ujong', 'Lung -ya-men',
'Temasek', 'Singapura' are all former names of Singapore and belie
its colourful history as the El-Dorado and nexus of Southeast Asia.
Who were Singapore's previous multilingual inhabitants? What were
the pidgins, creoles and languages that thronged its market places
and created its forgotten identities? How did polyglot migrants
caught in the throes of an earlier globalization organize their
respective identities? What hybrid identities arose from such
cross-cultural interactions? This book presents a fascinating
history of early identities in Singapore as examined through the
retrospective lens of language. A long view has been chosen for its
advantage in providing unexpected socio-political and linguistic
insights into the long term effects of change and continuity.
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