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Samoan Plantation Pidgin

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Samoan Plantation Pidgin
RegionSamoa
EraEffectively extinct
English-based pidgin
  • Pacific
    • Samoan Plantation Pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologsamo1307

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 (ed.). The Social Context of Creolization. pp. 28–76.