Papuan Pidgin English
Appearance
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 |
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 (ed.). Pidgins and Creoles. John Benjamins.
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