Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. Pidgins that are spoken as first languages become creoles.

English-based pidgins that became stable contact languages, and which have some documentation, include the following:

• Aboriginal Pidgin English

• Native American Pidgin English

• Cameroonian Pidgin English

• Chinese Pidgin English

• Butler English (India)

• Ghanaian Pidgin English

• Hawaiian Pidgin English

• Japanese Bamboo English

• Japanese Pidgin English

• Korean Bamboo English

• Kru Pidgin English

• Liberian Interior Pidgin English

• Micronesian Pidgin English

• Nauru Pidgin English

• New Zealand Pidgin English

• Nigerian Pidgin

• Papua New Guinea Pidgin

• Papuan Pidgin English (distinct from Tok Pisin)

• Port Jackson Pidgin English (ancestral to Australian Kriol)

• Queensland Kanaka English

• Samoan Plantation Pidgin

• Solombala English

• Solomon Islands Pijin

• Spanglish/Ingléspañol (including dialects Llanito, Belizean Kitchen Spanish, ABC Islands Spanglish)

• Thai Pidgin English

• Tok Pisin

• West African Pidgin English (multiple varieties)

• Vanuatu Bislama

• Franglish

See also

• English-based creoles

• Macaronic languages

• Rally English

• World Englishes

References