Papuan Pidgin English

Papuan Pidgin English
Region	New Guinea
Era	19th century
Language family	English-based pidgin Pacific Papuan Pidgin English
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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