Nauruan Pidgin English is an
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
-based
pidgin spoken in
Nauru. It appears to be the result of a merger of
Chinese-type and
Melanesian-type pidgins (see
Micronesian Pidgin English
Micronesian Pidgin is an English-based pidgin language spoken in nineteenth-century Micronesia. It may have been related to Melanesian Pidgin English, due to a number of workers from Melanesia.
English-speaking traders dominated the area from ...
).
References
Sources
*
English-based pidgins and creoles
Languages of Nauru
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