List of English-based pidgins

Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. English-based pidgins include:

• American Indian Pidgin English
• Bislama (Vanuatu Pidgin English, also called Bêche-de-mer)
• Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin
• Cameroonian Pidgin English
• Cape York Pidgin English
• Chinese Pidgin English
• Chukotka Pidgin English
• Fernando Poo Creole English
• Fulani Pidgin English
• Ghanaian Pidgin English
• Hawaiian Pidgin English
• Japanese Bamboo English
• Japanese Pidgin English
• Korean Bamboo English
• Kru Pidgin English
• Liberian Interior Pidgin English
• Loyalty Islands Pidgin English
• Madras Tamil Pidgin English
• Maori Pidgin English
• Micronesian Pidgin English
• Nauru Chinese Pidgin English
• New Caledonian Pidgin English
• Newfoundland Pidgin English
• Nigerian Pidgin English
• Northern Territory Pidgin English
• Pichinglis (Bioko Island)
• Pijin (blong Solomon) (Solomon Islands Pidgin English)
• Port Augusta Pidgin English
• Port Jackson Pidgin English
• Queensland Kanaka English
• Scottish Pidgin English
• Sierra Leone Pidgin English
• Samoan Plantation Pidgin
• Taiwan Pidgin English
• Thai Pidgin English
• Togolese Pidgin English
• Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin English)
• Torres Strait Pidgin English
• Vietnamese Pidgin English
• West African Pidgin English

See also

• Engrish
• Siculish
• Swenglish
• World Englishes
• In Jack London's story "Yah! Yah! Yah!", one of his "South Sea Tales (1911)", there is a reference to 'a bastard lingo called "bech-de-mer"', and much of the story's dialogue is conducted in it s:South Sea Tales/"Yah! Yah! Yah!".
• Imperial Bedroom, an album by Elvis Costello including the song "Pidgin English"

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