• Chinese Pidgin English (also called Chinese Coastal English or Pigeon English) is a pidgin language lexically based on English, but influenced by a Chinese...
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  • Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. Pidgins that are spoken as first languages...
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  • A pidgin /ˈpɪdʒɪn/, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do...
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  • Port Jackson Pidgin English or New South Wales Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin that originated in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in New...
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    Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin was a contact language (specifically a pidgin) used by Russian and Chinese traders to communicate during the 18th-early...
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  • Nauruan Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin spoken in Nauru. It appears to be the result of a merger of Chinese-type and Melanesian-type pidgins (see...
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    mixing into a new form (often, a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a...
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  • Native American Pidgin English, sometimes known as American Indian Pidgin English (AIPE) was an English-based pidgin spoken by Europeans and Native Americans...
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  • some cases a new contact language may be created as a result of the influence, such as a pidgin, creole, or mixed language. In many other cases, contact...
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  • foreigners, mainly English speaking westerners and Chinese traders. Documentation of Yokohama Pidgin Japanese shows that it was not a stable pidgin, as it often...
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  • Transatlantic English American English-based hybrid languages (creoles or pidgins) Afro-Seminole Creole Gullah language/Sea Island Creole English, South-East...
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  • language. Standard Fijian is based on the Bau dialect, which is an East Fijian language. A pidginized form is used by many Indo-Fijians and Chinese on...
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    Micronesian Pidgin is an English-based pidgin language spoken in nineteenth-century Micronesia. It may have been related to Melanesian Pidgin English, due to...
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  • A creole language is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages. Unlike a pidgin, a simplified form that develops as a means...
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  • Creole by linguists) is an English-based creole language with West African, Taíno, Irish, Spanish, Hindustani, Portuguese, Chinese, and German influences...
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  • Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese. However...
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  • Ishtla (2005). The History of English. Hodder Arnold. p. 127. ISBN 9780340806951. Sebba, Mark (1997). Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles. St. Martin’s...
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    Americas. Contact between the Portuguese language and native languages gave rise to many Portuguese-based pidgins, used as linguas francas throughout the...
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  • Romance-based pidgin language used especially by traders in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to the 19th centuries. A world language—a language spoken internationally...
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  • English (through the Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English), and the local Australian Aboriginal languages. For example, the following sentence contains...
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  • Micronesian Pidgin English Nauru Chinese Pidgin English Polinesia Samoan Plantation Pidgin Hawaiian Pidgin English Melanesia Papua New Guinea Pidgin Tok Pisin...
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    protect their language and heritage. The constitution also states that the four commonly used languages of Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil...
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    America. English is the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the...
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    list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Chinese and Arabic...
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  • languages but not clearly deriving primarily from any single language. It differs from a creole or pidgin language in that, whereas creoles/pidgins arise...
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  • Indonesia-Javanese-Chinese pidgin. West Javan Chinese-Indonesians tend to mix Sundanese in their vocabulary, and Medan (North Sumatran) Chinese-Indonesian have...
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    native languages. After some time, this new pidgin language, now combined with substantial influences from Peranakan, southern varieties of Chinese, Malay...
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    creole languages, pidgin languages, and sign languages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...
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  • English. The basilect is used very informally by those with limited proficiency and vocabulary in English, and it has features of an extended pidgin or...
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  • Russenorsk (redirect from Russonorsk Pidgin)
    Russian: руссено́рск, [rʊsʲɪˈnorsk]; English: Russo-Norwegian) is an extinct dual-source "restricted pidgin" language formerly used in the Arctic, which...
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