Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin
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| Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Broome, Western Australia | |
| Total speakers: | 40 (Ethnologue) | |
| Language family: | Malay-based pidgin. | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | crp | |
| ISO 639-3: | bpl | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is a pidgin that sprung up in Broome, Western Australia in the early 20th century to facilitate communication between the various groups working in the pearling industry there—Japanese, Malays, Koepangers, Hakka Chinese, Filipinos, a small number of Koreans, and local Australian Aborigines, mainly of the Bardi tribe but also Nyulnyul, Jabirrjabirr, Jukun, Yawuru and Karajarri people. Its words come primarily from the Malay language (specifically Kupang Malay), but it also took some words and grammatical features from Japanese, English (through the Pidgin English of the Aborigines), and the local Australian Aboriginal languages.
For example, the following sentence contains a Malay verb, Japanese grammatical particles, with the remaining words coming from English:
| Chirikurok | -kaa | hokurok | -kaa | peke | kriki. |
| English: "three o'clock" | Japanese: "or" | English: "four o'clock" | Japanese: "or" | Malay: "go" | English: "creek" |
| "We will enter the creek at three or four o'clock." | |||||
Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is no longer in active use today, but some words and phrases that originated in the pidgin are still used by younger generations of Asian-Aboriginals as a marker of ethnic identity.
[edit] References
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
- Hosokawa, Komei (1987). "Malay talk on boat: an account of Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin", in D. Laycock and W. Winter: A World of Language: Papers Presented to Professor S.A. Wurm on his 65th Birthday. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 287–296.
- McGregor, William (2004). The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia. London, New York: Taylor & Francis, 69–71.
