Japanese Bamboo English

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Japanese Bamboo English
Spoken in:	Japan
Total speakers:	—
Language family:	English-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`cpe`
ISO 639-3:	–
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Japanese Bamboo English is an English-based pidgin that was spoken between American military personnel and the Japanese in occupied Japan after the Second World War. Recently it has been most widely used in Okinawa,^[1] where there is a significant U.S. military presence.

[edit] Notes

Smith, Norval (1994). "An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages", in Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken, Norval Smith (eds.): Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 331–374.
Norman, Arthur M. Z. (1955). "Bamboo English: The Japanese Influence Upon American Speech". American Speech 30 (1): pp. 44–48. doi:10.2307/454192.