Samoan Plantation Pidgin
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Samoan Plantation Pidgin | ||
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Spoken in: | Samoa | |
Total speakers: | ? | |
Language family: | English-based pidgin | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | cpe | |
ISO 639-3: | —
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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.
[edit] References
- Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.