Papuan Pidgin English

Papuan Pidgin English
Native to	British New Guinea
Region	Samarai, Kiwai, Daru and parts of Port Moresby
Era	1880–1925
Language family	English-based pidgin Pacific Papuan Pidgin English
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	papu1254

Papuan Pidgin English was a 19th-century English-based pidgin of New Guinea. It was eventually replaced by Hiri Motu, a Melanesian-based pidgin, and was not ancestral to modern English-based Tok Pisin.

References

• Smith, Norval (1994). "An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages". In Jacque Arends, Pieter Muysken & Norval Smith (ed.). Pidgins and Creoles. John Benjamins.