Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. English-based pidgins include: This article is about simplified languages. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Bislama is a Melanesian creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu. ... Cameroonian Pidgin English, or Cameroonian Creole, is a linguistic entity of Cameroon. ... Torres Strait Creole (also Torres Strait Pidgin, Torres Strait Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole) is a creole language spoken on several Torres Strait Islands (Queensland, Australia). ... Chinese Pidgin English is a Pidgin language of Nauru and other countries in Asia and Oceania. ... Hawaiian Pidgin English, also known as Hawaiian Creole English or simply Pidgin, is a creole language based on English that is widely used by residents of Hawai‘i. ... Japanese Bamboo English is an English-based pidgin that was spoken between American military personnel and the Japanese in occupied Japan after the Second World War. ... This article is about the pidgin spoken in Japan. ... Nigerian Pidgin English is a version of English with Nigerian elements (words, gestures, and connotations) added in. ... Pijin is a language spoken in the Solomon Islands. ... 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. ... Samoan Plantation Pidgin is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by plantation workers in Samoa. ... Singlish is an English-based creole language native to Singapore. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Torres Strait Creole (also Torres Strait Pidgin, Torres Strait Brokan/Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole) is a creole language spoken on several Torres Strait Islands (Queensland, Australia), Northern Cape York and South-Western Coastal Papua. ... West African Pidgin English, also called Guinea Coast Creole English, was the lingua franca of commerce along the West African coast during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. ... A typical cat macro image. ...
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.
A Pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of a mixture of other languages as a means of communication between speakers of different tongues.
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