Any of several pidgins based on English and now spoken mostly on the Pacific islands and in West Africa.
[Alteration of pigeon English, from Pidgin English pigeon, business, perhaps from a Chinese pronunciation of EnglishBUSINESS .]
Pidgin English
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Pidg·in English pidg·in English (pĭj'ən)  |
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Any of several pidgins based on English and now spoken mostly on the Pacific islands and in West Africa.
Any of several pidgins based on English and now spoken mostly on the Pacific islands and in West Africa.
| Wikipedia: List of English-based pidgins |
Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. English-based pidgins include:
- American Indian Pidgin English
- Bislama (Vanuatu Pidgin English)
- Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin
- Cameroonian Pidgin English
- Cape York Pidgin English
- Chinese Pidgin English
- Chukotka Pidgin English
- Fernando Poo Creole English
- Fulani Pidgin English
- Ghanaian Pidgin English
- Hawaiian Pidgin English
- Japanese Bamboo English
- Japanese Pidgin English
- Korean Bamboo English
- Kru Pidgin English
- Liberian Interior Pidgin English
- Loyalty Islands Pidgin English
- Madras Tamil Pidgin English
- Maori Pidgin English
- Micronesian Pidgin English
- Nauru Chinese Pidgin English
- New Caledonian Pidgin English
- Newfoundland Pidgin English
- Nigerian Pidgin English
- Northern Territory Pidgin English
- Pichinglis (Bioko Island)
- Pijin (blong Solomon) (Solomon Islands Pidgin English)
- Port Augusta Pidgin English
- Port Jackson Pidgin English
- Queensland Kanaka English
- Samoan Plantation Pidgin
- Singlish (Singapore Pidgin English)
- Taiwan Pidgin English
- Thai Pidgin English
- Togolese Pidgin English
- Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin English)
- Torres Strait Pidgin English
- Vietnamese Pidgin English
- West African Pidgin English
See also
- In Jack London's story "Yah! Yah! Yah!", one of his "South Sea Tales", there is a reference to 'a bastard lingo called "bech-de-mer"', and much of the story's dialogue is conducted in it[1].
References
- Smith, Norval (1994). "An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages". in Jacque Arends, Pieter Muysken & Norval Smith. Pidgins and Creoles. John Benjamins.
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