Pijin (or Solomons Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; the...

lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes referred to as Pijin or Vernacular. First used by British colonists and slave traders to facilitate...

Kriol) Queensland Kanaka English Samoan Plantation Pidgin Solomon Islands Pijin Spanglish/Ingléspañol (including dialects Llanito, Belizean Kitchen Spanish...

several creoles of the region, such as Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay. The origin of Melanesians is generally associated...

Delaware Pidgin Hawaiian Pidgin Iha Pidgin Ngarluma Pidgin Onin Pidgin Wolof Pijin (creolized) Roquetas Pidgin Spanish Russenorsk Settler Swahili Surzhyk Sranan...

Solomons Pijin, is a de facto lingua franca of the country spoken by the majority of the population, along with local indigenous languages. Pijin is closely...

province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The lingua franca of the archipelago is Pijin, and the official language in both countries is English. Most of the languages...

origin not only of Bislama, but also of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea, and Pijin of the Solomon Islands; though not of Torres Strait Creole in the north...

across as snobbish to a speaker’s speech community. As their mother tongue, Pijin was acquired from the urban adult population by a generation of children...

Examples of other Melanesian creoles are Unserdeutsch, Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay. A distinction is often made between the island...