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 Japanese Pidgin English, a pidgin jargon spoken by immigrant plantation workers in Hawaii
• Japanese Bamboo English, a pidgin jargon used in US military installations

See also

• Engrish
• Yokohama Pidgin Japanese, spoken in the Japanese port of Yokohama in the 19th century

References

• Smith, Norval (1994). "An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages". In Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken, Norval Smith (eds.). Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 331–374.
• Norman, Arthur M. Z. (1955). "Bamboo English: The Japanese Influence Upon American Speech". American Speech 30 (1): pp. 44–48. doi:10.2307/454192. JSTOR 454192.