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Papuan Pidgin English
RegionNew Guinea
Era19th century
Language family
English-based pidgin
  • Pacific
    • Papuan Pidgin English
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologpapu1254

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.

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Papuan Pidgin English

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Tok Pisin

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Pidgin

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Pinglish

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Pinglish may refer to: Pakistani English Palestine English Papuan Pidgin English Fingilish or Pingilish, Persian English Pinglish, a village in Tral, Jammu...

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Languages of Papua New Guinea

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indigenous Papuan languages, which form a diverse sprachbund across the island of New Guinea. There are also many Austronesian languages spoken in Papua New...

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Hiri Motu

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Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea)...

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Torres Strait Creole

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Strait Pidgin, Brokan/Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole, Kriol, Papuan, Broken English, Blaikman, Big Thap, Pizin, and Ailan Tok, is an English-based...

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Melanesian Pidgin

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Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian language comprises four related English-derived languages of Melanesia: Bislama, of Vanuatu Solomon Islands Pidgin Tok Pisin...

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Papua New Guinea

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and non-Austronesian, or Papuan, languages. There are four languages in Papua New Guinea with some statutory recognition: English, Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu,...

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Iha language

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Iha (Kapaur) is a Papuan language spoken on the tip of the Bomberai Peninsula. It is the basis of a pidgin used as the local trade language. Marginal phonemes...

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Culture of Papua New Guinea

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the nation, the language Tok Pisin, once called Neo-Melanesian (or Pidgin English) has evolved as the lingua franca — the medium through which diverse...

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Languages of Oceania

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Papuan language families of New Guinea and neighbouring islands, including the large Trans–New Guinea family Contact between Austronesian and Papuan resulted...

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Onin language

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the Onin Peninsula in Bomberai, West Papua. Despite the small number of speakers, it is the basis of a local pidgin. It has 18 consonants and 5 vowels....

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Pijin language

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Pijin (or Solomons Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; the...

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List of creole languages

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Liberia Nigerian Creole, English based creole or pidgin[clarification needed] spoken in Nigeria Americas Bahamian Creole, English Creole spoken in The Bahamas...

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Malay trade and creole languages

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was a pidgin, influenced by contact among Malay, Hokkien, Portuguese, and Dutch traders. Besides the general simplification that occurs with pidgins, the...

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Music of Papua New Guinea

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create their own mixture of modern and traditional music sung in Tok Pidgin, English and local tribal languages. This style of music by these popular artists...

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Bugger

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British English, Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English, Hawaiian Pidgin, Indian English, Pakistani English, Canadian English, Caribbean...

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Pickaninny

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used in pidgin languages, meaning 'small'. This term is common in the creole languages of the Caribbean, especially those which are English-based. In...

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World Englishes

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Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Papua New Guinea, also a British protectorate, exemplified the English-based pidgin - Tok Pisin. The Americans came late...

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Enga language

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native language in New Guinea, and is second over all after Papuan Malay. An Enga-based pidgin is used by speakers of Arafundi languages. The Enga contain...

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Language family

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grouping Papuan languages Archived 8 June 2004 at the Wayback Machine". In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts:...

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Torres Strait Island languages

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Mìr. This is a Papuan language and is related to the languages of the nearby coast of Papua New Guinea. Meriam Mir is the only Papuan language indigenous...

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Raskol gangs

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of criminals in Papua New Guinea, primarily in the larger cities, including Port Moresby and Lae. Raskol is a Tok Pisin (Pidgin English) word derived from...

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Pitkern

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remote Pitcairn Island and settled there. A pidgin was formed based on English and Tahitian so that the English mutineers could communicate with the Tahitian...

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Papuan Malay

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The demonstratives in Papuan Malay also have long and short forms, as illustrated in Table 2. The following examples show how Papuan Malay’s two demonstratives...

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Hawaiian language

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critically endangered by UNESCO. A creole language, Hawaiian Pidgin (or Hawaii Creole English, HCE), is more commonly spoken in Hawaiʻi than Hawaiian. Some...

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