Papuan Pidgin English
| Papuan Pidgin English | |
|---|---|
| Region | New Guinea |
| Era | 19th century |
|
English-based pidgin
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog |
papu1254[1] |
Papuan Pidgin English was a 19th-century English-based pidgin of New Guinea. It was eventually replaced by Hiri Motu, a Melanesian-based pidgin, and was not ancestral to modern English-based Tok Pisin.
References
- Smith, Norval (1994). "An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages". In Jacque Arends, Pieter Muysken & Norval Smith. Pidgins and Creoles. John Benjamins.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Papuan Pidgin English". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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