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. 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
- American Indian Pidgin English
- Cameroonian Pidgin English
- Chinese Pidgin English
- Butler 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
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Papua New Guinea Pidgin
- Papuan Pidgin English
- Port Jackson Pidgin English
- Queensland Kanaka English
- Samoan Plantation Pidgin
- Solomon Islands Pijin
- Solombala-English
- Thai Pidgin English
- Tok Pisin
- West African Pidgin English
- Vanuatu Bislama
