Melanesian Pidgin

Melanesian Pidgin
Region	Melanesia
Language family	English-based pidgin and English Creole Pacific Melanesian Pidgin
Dialects	Bislama Solomon Islands Pijin Tok Pisin Torres Strait Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: bis  – Bislama pis  – Pijin tcs  – Torres Strait Creole tpi  – Tok Pisin
Glottolog	earl1243
IETF	cpe-054

Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian language comprises four related English-derived languages of Melanesia:

• Bislama, of Vanuatu
• Solomon Islands Pidgin
• Tok Pisin, of Papua New Guinea
• Torres Strait Creole, of the Torres Strait Islands and parts of Cape York

These languages are linked to workers from these places working on plantations in the Australian state of Queensland. Torres Strait Creole is the least closely related of the four.

Further reading

• Peter Mühlhäusler (3 October 2002). "Pidgin English and the Melanesian Mission". Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 17 (2): 237–263. doi:10.1075/JPCL.17.2.04MUH. ISSN   0920-9034. Wikidata   Q134700881.
• Karin Speedy (November 2013). "Reflections on creole genesis in New Caledonia". Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 45 (2): 187–205. doi:10.1080/03740463.2014.897817. ISSN   0374-0463. Wikidata   Q134700946.
• Peter Mühlhäusler, The Changing Status of Melanesian Pidgin English, doi:10.1515/9783110851625.253, Wikidata   Q134700947
• D. T. Tryon; J. A. Bennett; P. Muhlhausler (31 December 1979), Some English-based Pidgins in the Southwestern Pacific, pp. 53–78, doi:10.1515/9783110820775-005, Wikidata   Q134700948

See also

• Micronesian Pidgin English, spoken in nineteenth-century Micronesia
• Pidgin (disambiguation)