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What (who) is pidgin English - definition

WIKIMEDIA LIST ARTICLE
Pigin English; Pidgin English; English-based pidgin; English based pidgins; English pidgin; Pidgeon English

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. Pidgins that are spoken as first languages become creoles.
Nauruan Pidgin English         
PIDGIN LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN NAURU
Nauruan Creole; Nauru Chinese Pidgin English; Nauru Pacific Pidgin
Nauruan Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin spoken in Nauru. It appears to be the result of a merger of Chinese-type and Melanesian-type pidgins (see Micronesian Pidgin English).
Papuan Pidgin English         
19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH-BASED PIDGIN OF NEW GUINEA
Papuan Pidgin English language
Papuan Pidgin English was a 19th-century English-based pidgin of New Guinea. It was eventually replaced by Hiri Motu, a Melanesian-based pidgin, and was not ancestral to modern English-based Tok Pisin.

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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. Pidgins that are spoken as first languages become creoles.

English-based pidgins that became stable contact languages, and which have some documentation, include the following:

  • Aboriginal Pidgin English
  • Native American Pidgin English
  • Cameroonian Pidgin English
  • Chinese Pidgin English
  • Butler English (India)
  • Euro English
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English
  • Hawaiian Pidgin English
  • Japanese Bamboo English
  • Japanese Pidgin English
  • Korean Bamboo English
  • Kru Pidgin English
  • Liberian Interior Pidgin English
  • Micronesian Pidgin English
  • Nauru Pidgin English
  • New Zealand Pidgin English
  • Nigerian Pidgin
  • Papua New Guinea Pidgin
  • Papuan Pidgin English (distinct from Tok Pisin)
  • Port Jackson Pidgin English (ancestral to Australian Kriol)
  • Queensland Kanaka English
  • Samoan Plantation Pidgin
  • Solomon Islands Pijin
  • Solombala-English
  • Thai Pidgin English
  • Tok Pisin
  • West African Pidgin English (multiple varieties)
  • Vanuatu Bislama
  • Franglish
Examples of use of pidgin English
1. A sort of pidgin English, or perhaps crow English is a better description.
2. Prof Sutherland who is also the chairman of this years Man Booker prize for fiction has written more than 20 books, none of which is in pidgin English.
3. A man approached a Mail on Sunday reporter, waving a card with a message written in pidgin English and asking for cash to support his three children.
4. As the truck whizzes along a coastal highway, Beaver talks in the singsong pidgin English that he reserves for his loved ones and Hawaiian friends here on the island of Oahu.
5. I discover that computers talk in a strange sort of pidgin English – a very basic language, restricted in size and sophistication by the small amount of memory available when computers were first developed.