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Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Spoken in:

Samoa

Language extinction:

Effectively extinct.

Language family:

English-based pidgin

Language codes

ISO 639-1:

none

ISO 639-2:

cpe

ISO 639-3:

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An extinct language (also called a dead language) is a language which no longer has any native speakers. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families A language family is a group of related languages said to have descended from a common proto-language. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ...

Samoan Plantation Pidgin is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by plantation workers in Samoa. It is closely related to Tok Pisin, due to the large number of New Guinean laborers in Samoa. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 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. ... // This article is about crop plantations. ... 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. ... New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the worlds second largest island, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded around 5000 BC. The name Papua has also been long-associated with the island: this is discussed further under...

References

Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

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Mid-Pacific English-based pidgins and creoles

Tok Pisin · Pijin · Bislama · Torres Strait Creole · Loyalty Islands Pidgin English · New Caledonian Pidgin English† · Micronesian Pidgin English† · Queensland Kanaka English · Maori Pidgin English† · Samoan Plantation Pidgin† A pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of two or more languages as a means of communication between speakers of different tongues, and usually a simplified form of one of the languages. ... A creole language, or simply a creole, is stable language that originated from a non-trivial combination of two or more languages, typically with many features that are not inherited from any parent. ... 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. ... Pijin is a language spoken in the Solomon Islands. ... Bislama is a Melanesian creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu. ... 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). ... 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. ...

Categories: English-based pidgins and creoles | Languages of Samoa | Pidgin and creole language stubs

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