Japanese-based creole languages

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Japanese-based creole languages or simply Japanese Creoles are creole languages for which Japanese is the lexifier . This article also contains information on Japanese pidgin languages, contact languages that lack native speakers.

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List of languages

Some important Japanese creoles and pidgins are the following:

CreoleLocationStatus
Yilan Creole [1] Taiwan endangered
Kyowa-go [2] China extinct
Yokohama Pidgin Japanese [3] Japan extinct
Ogasawara Creole [4] Ogasawara Islands extinct
Japanese Bamboo English Japan critically endangered
Okinawan Japanese / Amami Japanese Ryukyu Islands

Japanese has also made a significant contribution to other pidgins and creoles: to Ogasawara Creole, with an English-based lexicon, spoken in Ogasawara Islands, [5] to the Chinese-based Xieheyu spoken in Manchukuo, to the Bamboo English of occupied Japan, and to the Hawaiian Pidgin which became a creole spoken in Hawaii.

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References

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  2. "文献に現れた述語形式と国語史の不整合性について". www.ne.jp. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  3. Avram, Andrei A. (2014-12-31). "Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Revisited". Acta Linguistica Asiatica. 4 (2): 67–84. doi:10.4312/ala.4.2.67-84. ISSN 2232-3317. (2014). "Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Revisited". Acta Linguistica Asiatica. 4 (2): 67–84. doi: 10.4312/ala.4.2.67-84 .{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. "Glottolog 4.7 - Bonin English Pidgin". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
  5. LONG, DANIEL (2007). "WHEN ISLANDS CREATE LANGUAGES or, Why do language research with Bonin (Ogasawara) Islanders?" (PDF). Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures. 1 (1).