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) 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 Solombala English Solomon Islands Pijin Spanglish/Ingléspañol (including dialects Llanito, Belizean Kitchen Spanish, ABC Islands Spanglish) Thai Pidgin English Tok Pisin West African Pidgin English (multiple varieties) Vanuatu Bislama Franglish
See also English-based creoles Macaronic languages Rally English World Englishes
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