Queensland Kanaka English
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Queensland Kanaka English | ||
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Spoken in: | Queensland, Australia | |
Total speakers: | ||
Language family: | English-based pidgin. | |
Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
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ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | cpe | |
ISO 639-3: | —
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Queensland Kanaka English, Queensland Canefields English or Queensland Plantation Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by Melanesian labourers in Queensland, Australia from the late 1860s.
[edit] References
- Dutton, Thomas E. (1980). Queensland Canefields English of the late nineteenth century. Pacific Linguistics.
- Dutton, Thomas E.; Mühlhäusler, Peter (1984). "Queensland Kanaka English". English World-Wide 4 (2): 231—264.
[edit] See also
Mid-Pacific English-based
Tok Pisin · Pijin · Bislama · Loyalty Islands Pidgin English · New Caledonian Pidgin English† · Micronesian Pidgin English† · Queensland Kanaka English · Maori Pidgin English† · Samoan Plantation Pidgin†