Samoan Plantation Pidgin
Samoan Plantation Pidgin | |
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Region | Samoa |
Era | Effectively extinct |
English-based pidgin
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
None (mis ) |
Glottolog |
samo1307 [1] |
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 Guinean laborers in Samoa.
References
- Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin". In Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh. The Social Context of Creolization. pp. 28–76.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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