Papuan Pidgin English
Papuan Pidgin English | |
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Region | New Guinea |
Era | 19th century |
English-based pidgin
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
None (mis ) |
Glottolog |
papu1254 [1] |
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.
References
- Smith, Norval (1994). "An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages". In Jacque Arends, Pieter Muysken & Norval Smith. Pidgins and Creoles. John Benjamins.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Papuan Pidgin English". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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