Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many

pidgin A pidgin , 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 s ...

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 Japanese Pidgin English is any of several English-based pidgins spoken or influenced by the Japanese. * Cape York Japanese Pidgin English, spoken in the pearling area at Thursday Island *Hawaiian Pidgin English, which began as a pidgin jargon spoke ...

Korean Bamboo English Bamboo English was a Japanese Pidgin-English jargon developed after World War II that was spoken between American military personnel and the Japanese on US military bases in occupied Japan. It has been thought to be a pidgin, though analysis o ...

Kru Pidgin English Liberian Kreyol is an Atlantic English-lexicon creole language spoken in Liberia.Liberian English

Liberian Interior Pidgin English Merico or Americo-Liberian (or the informal colloquial name "American") is an English-based creole language spoken until recently in Liberia by Americo-Liberians, descendants of original settlers, freed slaves, and African Americans who emigrat ...

* Micronesian Pidgin English * Nauru Pidgin English * New Zealand Pidgin English * Nigerian Pidgin * Papua New Guinea Pidgin *

Papuan Pidgin English 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 Tok Pisin (,Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The L ...

(distinct from Tok Pisin) * Port Jackson Pidgin English (ancestral to

Australian Kriol Australian Kriol is an English-based creole language that developed from a pidgin used initially in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, in the early days of European colonisation. Later, it was spoken by groups ...

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Queensland Kanaka English 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. See also *Blackbirding * ...

Samoan Plantation Pidgin 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 Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , ...

Solomon Islands Pijin Pijin (Solomons Pidgin or Neo-Solomonic) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; these might be considered dialects of a single language. It is also related to T ...

Solombala-English Solombala-English, or Solombala English–Russian Pidgin, is a little-known pidgin, derived from both English and Russian, that was spoken in the port of Solombala in the city of Arkhangelsk (Archangel), Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries. T ...

* Thai Pidgin English * Tok Pisin * West African Pidgin English (multiple varieties) *

Vanuatu Bislama Bislama (; ; also known by its earlier French name, ) is an English-based creole language and one of the official languages of Vanuatu. It is the first language of many of the "Urban ni-Vanuatu" (citizens who live in Port Vila and Luganville) ...

Franglish Franglais (; also Frenglish ) is a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French () and English (). Etymology The word ''Franglais'' was first attes ...

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* * {{English dialects by continent English Pidgins