Pidgin Fijian (also known as Jargon Fijian, Fijian Pidgin, Broken Fijian) was a plantation language used by iTaukei (Indigenous) Fijians and foreigners in Fiji's plantations.[1]
^Siegel, Jeff (1987). Language contact in a plantation environment: a sociolinguistic history of Fiji. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521325776.
PidginFijian (also known as Jargon Fijian, FijianPidgin, Broken Fijian) was a plantation language used by iTaukei (Indigenous) Fijians and foreigners...
"national language". Fijian is a VOS language. Standard Fijian is based on the Bau dialect, which is an East Fijian language. A pidginized form is used by...
Indigenous Fijians in areas of Fiji where there are large Indo-Fijian communities. A pidgin form of the language is used by rural ethnic Fijians, as well...
business is also done in Fijian, especially away from larger town centers. A small number of other Indigenous West Fijian and East Fijian regional languages...
Hawaiian Pidgin (alternately, Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE, known locally as Pidgin) is an English-based creole language spoken in Hawaiʻi. An estimated...
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Emirates, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago, Singapore, Fiji, Qatar, Kuwait, Guyana, Bhutan, Oman and Yemen. The top fifteen countries...
labours on sugarcane, cocoa, rice, and rubber plantations in the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles and Natal, South Africa. A majority of Indo-Mauritians...
largest ethnic backgrounds that Fijians identified with were Indian/Indo-Fijian and Indigenous Fijian origins. Fijians were also the fifth largest Pacific...
Nikhat Shameem is a Fijian academic in the field of linguistics. Her research interests include language maintenance and shift of pidgins, creoles and minority...
Papua. Despite the small number of speakers, it is the basis of a local pidgin. It has 18 consonants and 5 vowels. Onin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child...
is taken from the medieval Mediterranean Lingua Franca, a Romance-based pidgin language used especially by traders in the Mediterranean Basin from the...
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; these...
("Naga Pidgin") is an Assamese-lexified creole language. Depending on location, it has also been described and classified as an "extended pidgin" or "pidgincreole"...
Maritime Polynesian Pidgin was a Polynesian-based pidgin that was the main contact language for European exploratory and whaling expeditions to the Pacific...
throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, including major languages such as Fijian (Fiji), Hiligaynon, Bikol, Ilocano, Cebuano, Tagalog (Philippines), and Malay...
classified as critically endangered by UNESCO. A creole language, Hawaiian Pidgin (or Hawaii Creole English, HCE), is more commonly spoken in Hawaiʻi than...
mainly in Queensland, Australia, and Fiji. With several languages being spoken in these plantations a localised pidgin was formed, combining English vocabulary...
Bihari languages, Fijian and English is spoken in Fiji. It is an official language in Fiji as per the 1997 Constitution of Fiji, where it referred to...
native names as compared to the common names: Tobi is the basis of a local pidgin. animal = mar coconut palm = ruh goodbye = sabuho language = ramarih soldierfish...
African Americans who immigrated to Liberia in the nineteenth century Kru Pidgin English the language of Kru migrant workers and mariners. It is now moribund...
compact area. In addition to the many indigenous Melanesian languages, pidgins and creole languages have developed from trade and cultural interaction...
Proto-Indo-Aryan Unclassified Bazigar Chinali–Lahul Chinali Lahul Lohar Sheikhgal Pidgins and creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese...