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A pidgin [1] [2] [3] / ˈ p ɪ dʒ ɪ n /, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.
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) Ghanaian Pidgin English. Hawaiian Pidgin English. Japanese Bamboo English.
South Australian Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin contact language used between European settlers and Australian aborigines. It began some time around or before 1820 on Kangaroo Island, a sealing and whaling base, between the sealers and whalers and their aboriginal 'wives', who were abducted from Tasmania or the Adelaide Plains.
Linguasphere. 52-ABB-dc. External audio. There is a video of Hawaiian Pidgin English on this news report HERE. Hawaiian Pidgin (alternately, Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE, known locally as Pidgin) is an English -based creole language spoken in Hawaiʻi. An estimated 600,000 residents of Hawaiʻi speak Hawaiian Pidgin natively and 400,000 speak ...
Language codes. ISO 639-3. pcm. Glottolog. nige1257. Nigerian Pidgin, also known as Naijá in scholarship, is an English -based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes referred to as Pijin or Vernacular.
Native American Pidgin English, sometimes known as American Indian Pidgin English (AIPE) was an English-based pidgin spoken by Europeans and Native Americans in western North America. The main geographic regions in which AIPE was spoken was British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington. AIPE is mentioned in World Englishes as one of many factors ...
A creole language, [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period. [ 5 ]
The Basque–Icelandic pidgin (Basque: Euskoislandiera, Islandiera-euskara pidgina; Icelandic: Basknesk-íslenskt blendingsmál) was a Basque -based pidgin spoken in Iceland during the 17th century. It consisted of Basque, Germanic, and Romance words. Basque whale hunters who sailed to the Icelandic Westfjords used the pidgin as a means of ...