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Queensland Kanaka English

 
Wikipedia: Queensland Kanaka English

 

Queensland Kanaka English
Spoken in Queensland, Australia
Total speakers
Language family English-based pidgin.
Writing system Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2 cpe
ISO 639-3

Queensland Kanaka English, Queensland Canefields English or Queensland Plantation Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by Melanesian labourers in Queensland, Australia from the late 1860s.

References

  • Dutton, Thomas E. (1980). Queensland Canefields English of the late nineteenth century. Pacific Linguistics. 
  • Dutton, Thomas E.; Mühlhäusler, Peter (1984). "Queensland Kanaka English". English World-Wide 4 (2): 231–264. 

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