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Simplified language
A pidgin /ˈpɪdʒɪn/, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified form of contact language that develops between two or more groups of people that
Pidgin
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up pidgin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pidgin is a simplified language that develops between two or more groups who do not share a common
Pidgin_(disambiguation)
English-based creole spoken in Hawaii
Hawaiian Pidgin (known formally in linguistics as Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE and known locally as Pidgin) is an English-based creole language spoken
Hawaiian_Pidgin
English-based creole languages
Nigerian Pidgin or NPE, also known simply as Pidgin or as Naijá in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca or vehicular
Nigerian_Pidgin
Online news service in West African Pigdin English
BBC News Pidgin is an online news service in West African Pidgin English that was launched by the BBC World Service in 2017. It is based in Lagos, Nigeria
BBC_News_Pidgin
Stable natural languages that have developed from a pidgin
of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language
Creole_language
Open-source multi-platform instant messaging client
Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a free and open-source instant messaging client for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and other platforms. Based on the library
Pidgin_(software)
English creole spoken in Papua New Guinea
[tok pisin]), often referred to by English speakers as New Guinea Pidgin or simply Pidgin, is an English creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea
Tok_Pisin
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
List_of_English-based_pidgins
Type of contact language
Chinese Pidgin English (Cantonese: 廣東番話) (also called Chinese Coastal English, Pigeon English, or Chinese Coast Pidgin) was a pidgin language lexically
Chinese_Pidgin_English
Creole language
West African Pidgin English, also known as Guinea Coast Creole English, is a West African pidgin language lexified by English and local African languages
West_African_Pidgin_English
English-based pidgin spoken or influenced by the Japanese
Japanese Pidgin English is any of several English-based pidgins spoken or influenced by the Japanese. Cape York Japanese Pidgin English, spoken in the
Japanese_Pidgin_English
17th-century Basque-based pidgin
Basque–Icelandic pidgin (Basque: euskara-islandiera pidgin, islandiera-euskara pidgin; Icelandic: Basknesk-íslenskt blendingsmál) was a Basque-based pidgin spoken
Basque–Icelandic_pidgin
Pidgin language
Ghanaian Pidgin English (GhaPE) is a Ghanaian English-lexifier pidgin also known as Pidgin, Broken English, and Kru English (kroo brofo in Akan). GhaPE
Ghanaian_Pidgin_English
Creole language derived from the English language
monogenesis hypothesis posits that a single language, commonly called proto–Pidgin English, spoken along the West African coast in the early sixteenth century
English-based creole languages
English-based_creole_languages
Japanese pidgin of Yokohama, Japan
Yokohama Pidgin Japanese, Yokohamese or Japanese Ports Lingo was a Japanese-based pre-pidgin spoken in the Yokohama region during the late 19th century
Yokohama_Pidgin_Japanese
Topics referred to by the same term
Carib Pidgin may refer to: The Ndyuka-Tiriyó Pidgin, a pidgin language spoken in South America The "men's language" spoken by the Kalinago in the Caribbean
Carib_Pidgin
Family of creole languages for which French is the lexifier
nascent French colonies. This article also contains information on French pidgin languages, contact languages that lack native speakers. These contact languages
French-based_creole_languages
Extinct pidgin spoken by German-educated Chinese
The Kiautschou German pidgin is a minor extinct pidgin spoken by German-educated Chinese in the Kiautschou Bay concession. There are records of some sort
Kiautschou_German_pidgin
Wolof-based pidgin of the Gambia
Pidgin Wolof is a pidgin language based on Wolof, spoken in the Gambia. Norval Smith (1994). "26. An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages"
Pidgin_Wolof
English-based contact language
Massachusett Pidgin English was an English-based contact language that had developed in early seventeenth century New England and Long Island as a medium
Massachusett_Pidgin_English
Arabic-based pidgins
pidgins. Additionally, Maridi Arabic may have been an 11th-century pidgin. The Arabic creoles and pidgins are: Bimbashi Arabic, a colonial-era pidgin
Arabic-based pidgins and creoles
Arabic-based_pidgins_and_creoles
Austronesia language spoken in Indonesia
basis of a local pidgin. It has 18 consonants and 5 vowels. Onin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) "Onin Based Pidgin". Ethnologue.
Onin_language
Arabic-based creole languages
Gulf Pidgin Arabic is a group of Arabic-based pidgins which are primarily used by migrant workers in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The variety was
Gulf_Pidgin_Arabic
English-based pidgin spoken in Nauru
Nauruan Pidgin English also called Nauruan Pacific Pidgin is an English-based pidgin spoken in Nauru. It appears to be the result of a merger of Chinese-type
Nauruan_Pidgin_English
Loanwords in Nigerian Pidgin are the various words borrowed from other languages in order to enrich the Nigerian Pidgin lexicon. The English-based creole
Loanwords_in_Nigerian_Pidgin
Pidgin language uses between European sailors and Polynesians
Maritime Polynesian Pidgin was a Polynesian-based pidgin that was the main contact language for European exploratory and whaling expeditions to the Pacific
Maritime_Polynesian_Pidgin
English-based creole of Cameroon
Cameroonian Pidgin English, or Cameroonian Creole (Cameroon Pidgin: Wes Cos, from West Coast), is a language variety of Cameroon. It is also known as Kamtok
Cameroonian_Pidgin_English
Inuit-based pidgin of Canada
Inuktitut-English Pidgin was an Inuit pidgin used as a contact language in Quebec, Labrador, and neighboring areas of the eastern Arctic. It consisted
Inuktitut-English_Pidgin
Pidgin language last attested in 1711, in Canada
Algonquian–Basque pidgin, also known as Souriquois, is a Basque-based pidgin that linguist Peter Bakker proposed was spoken by ethnic Basque whalers and
Algonquian–Basque_pidgin
Sinhalese-Lebanese Arabic mixed language
Pidgin Madam is a pidgin language that is a mixture of Lebanese Arabic and traditional Sinhalese. Since the oil boom of the 1970s, several forms of Pidgin
Pidgin_Madam
the word "bung" which was originally a Yagara word which was used in the pidgin widely spoken across Australia in colonial times. Boonga / boong / bunga
List_of_ethnic_slurs
Russian-based pidgin language
Taimyr Pidgin Russian, also known as Govorka (Russian: говорка), is a Russian-based pidgin spoken on the Taimyr Peninsula by the Nganasan people. Before
Taimyr_Pidgin_Russian
Arawakan language historically spoken in the Lesser Antilles
During the French colonial period, Carib men also spoke a Cariban-derived pidgin amongst themselves. At the time of European contact, the Kalinago lived
Kalinago_language
Group of related creoles of Melanesia
Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian language comprises four related English-derived languages of Melanesia: Bislama, of Vanuatu Solomon Islands Pidgin Tok Pisin
Melanesian_Pidgin
Delaware-based pidgin
Pidgin Delaware (also Delaware Jargon or Trader's Jargon) was a pidgin language that developed between speakers of Unami Delaware and Dutch traders and
Pidgin_Delaware
Colonial Nigeria) and French (since 1996). The English-based creole Nigerian Pidgin – first used by the British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic
Languages_of_Nigeria
Mixture of several programming languages in the same program
In computer programming, pidgin code is a mixture of several programming languages in the same program, or mathematical pseudocode that is a mixture of
Pidgin_code
Language used to facilitate communication between groups without a common native language
is taken from the medieval Mediterranean Lingua Franca, a Romance-based pidgin language used especially by traders in the Mediterranean Basin from the
Lingua_franca
English-based pidgin of New Guinea
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
Papuan_Pidgin_English
Fijian-based pidgin
Pidgin Fijian (also known as Jargon Fijian, Fijian Pidgin, Broken Fijian) was a plantation language used by iTaukei (Indigenous) Fijians and foreigners
Pidgin_Fijian
Bantu language spoken in Africa
called "the trade language", "the language of the river", or "Bobangi-pidgin", among other names. In 1884, Europeans introduced this restructured variety
Lingala
English-based pidgin of the USA
Native American Pidgin English, sometimes known as American Indian Pidgin English (AIPE) was an English-based pidgin spoken by Europeans and Native Americans
Native American Pidgin English
Native_American_Pidgin_English
Austronesian language of the Tukangbesi Islands of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia by a quarter million speakers. A Tukang Besi pidgin is used in the area. The northern dialect of Tukang Besi has 25 consonant
Tukang_Besi_language
Pidgin English, from the Guinea Coast Kru Pidgin English Liberian Interior Pidgin English Nigerian Pidgin Cameroonian Pidgin English Ghanaian Pidgin Asia
List of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages and cants based on Indo-European languages
List_of_pidgins,_creoles,_mixed_languages_and_cants_based_on_Indo-European_languages
Extinct French-lexified pidgin
Labrador Inuit Pidgin French, also called Belle Isle Pidgin or Inuit French Jargon, was a French-lexified pidgin spoken between Breton and Basque fishermen
Labrador_Inuit_Pidgin_French
19th and 20th century Italian-based pidgin
Italian-based Pidgin that developed in Italian Somaliland during the Italian Colonial Period. The Pidgin was very similar to Italian Eritrean Pidgin and used
Simplified_Italian_of_Somalia
West Germanic language
traces back to African languages spoken by the slaves who had to develop a pidgin or English-based creole to communicate with slaves of other ethnic and linguistic
English_language
Radio station with branches across Nigeria
Wazobia FM is a Nigerian pidgin radio station that broadcast their programs in pidgin and other indigenous languages which includes Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa
Wazobia_FM
Country in West Africa
official language. Ghanaian Pidgin English, also known as Kru English (or in Akan, kroo brofo), is a variety of West African Pidgin English spoken in Accra
Ghana
Hausa-based pidgin of Nigeria
Barikanchi pidgin, Barikanci, or Bastard Hausa is a pidgin of the Hausa language spoken in Nigeria. Barikanci is used by the Nigerian Armed Forces to
Barikanchi_pidgin
English-based Australian pidgin
Port Jackson Pidgin English or New South Wales Pidgin English was an English-based pidgin that originated in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in New
Port_Jackson_Pidgin_English
American author, statistician and inventor (1844–1923)
Charles Felton Pidgin (November 11, 1844 – June 3, 1923) was an American author, statistician, and inventor. He is best known for his 1900 novel Quincy
Charles_Felton_Pidgin
Pidgin spoken in Western Australia
Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is a pidgin that sprang up in Broome, Western Australia in the early 20th century to facilitate communication between the
Broome_Pearling_Lugger_Pidgin
Massachusett-based pidgin
Massachusett Pidgin or Massachusett Jargon was a contact pidgin or auxiliary language derived from the Massachusett language attested in the earliest colonial
Massachusett_Pidgin
Pidgin language of Jordan
Jordanian Bengali Pidgin Arabic (JBPA) is an Arabic pidgin spoken in Jordan. The pidgin was formed from contact between the Jordanian Arabic and Bengali
Jordanian Bengali Pidgin Arabic
Jordanian_Bengali_Pidgin_Arabic
1994 Italian film
Pidgin is a 1994 Italian English-language short film directed by Andrea Gropplero, starring Anna Scaglione and Yuhi Sethu. The film's title Pidgin refers
Pidgin_(film)
Dialect spoken by immigrants in Southern Spain
Roquetas Pidgin Spanish is a Spanish-based pidgin spoken among agricultural workers in Roquetas de Mar in Spain. Immigrants attracted to work in the greenhouses
Roquetas_Pidgin_Spanish
Archipelagic country in Southeast Asia
August 10, 2019. Retrieved March 31, 2023. Hymes, Dell, ed. (1971). Pidginization and Creolization of Languages; Proceedings of a Conference Held at the
Philippines
Extinct Greenlandic-based contact language
West Greenlandic Pidgin is an extinct Greenlandic-based contact language once used between the Inuit of Greenland and European traders. The vocabulary
West_Greenlandic_Pidgin
1916 silent film by Fred J. Balshofer
Pidgin Island is a 1916 American silent romantic drama film directed by Fred J. Balshofer and starring Harold Lockwood, May Allison, Pomeroy Cannon, Lester
Pidgin_Island
Nigerian online daily newspaper
launched a news section in Pidgin language. In addition to their standard English version, Prime 9ja Online recently launched a Pidgin version of their website
Prime_9ja_Online
Creole languages lexified by Portuguese
many Portuguese-based pidgins, used as linguas francas throughout the Portuguese sphere of influence. In time, many of these pidgins were nativized, becoming
Portuguese-based creole languages
Portuguese-based_creole_languages
Internet meme involving images of cats
strangely-conjugated verbs. Mark Liberman (April 25, 2007). "Language Log: Kitty Pidgin and asymmetrical tail-wags". Archived from the original on April 28, 2007
Lolcat
Extinct Russian–Norwegian pidgin
[rʊsʲɪˈnorsk]; English: Russo-Norwegian) is an extinct dual-source "restricted pidgin" language formerly used in the Arctic, which combined elements of Russian
Russenorsk
Language arising from contact between deaf people
languages also arise between different sign languages, although the term pidgin rather than contact sign is used to describe such phenomena. Contact sign
Contact_sign
Extinct pidgin spoken in the Leeward Islands
Antiguan and Barbudan Pidgin (ABP) was a pidgin language descended from contact between Antiguan and Barbudan English, existing Gullah–Nevis–Antigua dialects
Antiguan_and_Barbudan_Pidgin
Pidgin spoken in Hawaii in the 19th and 20th centuries
Pidgin Hawaiian (or Hawaii Plantation Pidgin) Pidgin Hawaiian: ‘Ōlelo pa‘i ‘ai was a pidgin spoken in Hawaii, which draws most of its vocabulary from
Pidgin_Hawaiian
Linguistic hypothesis on the origin of pidgins and creoles
According to the theory of monogenesis in its most radical form, all pidgins and creole languages of the world can be ultimately traced back to one linguistic
Monogenetic_theory_of_pidgins
1981 book on Hawaiian Pidgin
Pidgin to Da Max (full title: Peppo's Pidgin to Da Max) is a humorous illustrated dictionary of Hawaiian Pidgin words and phrases, published in December
Pidgin_to_Da_Max
Indo-Aryan language of most Indo-Fijians
Indo-Fijian communities. A pidgin form of the language is used by rural ethnic Fijians, as well as Chinese on the islands, while Pidgin Fijian is spoken by Indo-Fijians
Fiji_Hindi
Japanese Pidgin-English jargon
Bamboo English was a Japanese English-based pidgin jargon developed after World War II that was spoken between American military personnel and Japanese
Bamboo_English
Indigenous peoples of the United States
Zuni, Pawnee, Shawnee, Winnebago, Ojibwe, Cree, O'odham) Spanish Native Pidgin (extinct) French Religion Predominantly Traditional Native American religions
Native Americans in the United States
Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
11th–19th c. language of the Mediterranean basin
centuries. April McMahon describes Sabir as a "fifteenth century proto-pidgin" and "a relic of the original Lingua Franca, a medieval language used by
Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca
Pidgin language used during the Italian colonization of Eritrea
Pidgin in Eritrea (or Italian Eritrean, as is often called) also known as Asmara Pidgin Italian or Simplified Italian of Ethiopia (SIE) was a pidgin language
Italian_Eritrean
Modern writing system of 33 letters
Southern Balachka Surzhyk Pidgins, creoles, cants and mixed languages Alaskan Russian Fenya Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin Mednyj Aleut Padonkaffsky jargon
Russian_alphabet
Continent
Washington, D. C.: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1993. Holm, John A. (1989). Pidgins and Creoles: References survey. Cambridge University Press. p. 394.
Africa
Papuan language spoken in Indonesia
Bomberai Peninsula in West Papua Province, Indonesia. It is the basis of a pidgin used as the local trade language. Marginal phonemes are in parentheses.
Iha_language
(creoles or pidgins) Afro-Seminole Creole Gullah language/Sea Island Creole English, South-East US related to Bahamian creole Hawaiian Pidgin STANDARD CANADIAN
List_of_dialects_of_English
Assamese-derived creole language spoken in Nagaland, India
on location, it has also been described and classified as an "extended pidgin" or "pidgincreole". Spoken natively by an estimated 30,000 people in the
Nagamese_creole
French-based pidgin of Vietnam
Tây Bồi (Vietnamese: tiếng Tây Bồi), or Vietnamese Pidgin French, was an extinct pidgin once spoken by non-French-educated Vietnamese, typically those
Tây_Bồi_Pidgin_French
Extinct Russian–English pidgin language
Solombala English–Russian Pidgin, (Russian: Соломбальский английский язык, romanized: Solombalskij anglijskij jazyk) is a pidgin derived from both English
Solombala_English
1945 novel by Margery Allingham
Coroner's Pidgin is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1945, in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann, London and in the United States
Coroner's_Pidgin
Group of languages related through a common ancestor
as the largest families, of 7,788 languages (other than sign languages, pidgins, and unclassifiable languages): Language counts can vary significantly
Language_family
as Pidgin Delaware) Eskimo Trade Jargon (also known as Herschel Island Eskimo Pidgin, Ship's Jargon) Greenlandic Pidgin (West Greenlandic Pidgin) Guajiro-Spanish
Indigenous languages of the Americas
Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas
English-based Kolokwa language
such, rather than being a pidgin wholly distinct from English, it is a range of varieties that extend from the highly pidginized to one that shows many similarities
Liberian_Kreyol
English-based creole language
Strait Creole (Torres Strait Creole: Yumplatok), also known as Torres Strait Pidgin, Brokan/Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole, Kriol, Papuan, Broken
Torres_Strait_Creole
U.S. state
Ilocano, and Tagalog. The development of Hawaiian Pidgin began with Pidgin Hawaiian, an earlier pidgin that formed in the 1790s during initial contact between
Hawaii
German concession in China (1897–1914)
was the Qingdao dialect of Jiaoliao Mandarin. A German pidgin, known as Kiautschou German pidgin, developed as well, as a mixture of High German, Middle
Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory
Kiautschou_Bay_Leased_Territory
Early 18th-century Swedish-based pidgin
Borgarmålet (lit. 'townsfolk language') was an early 18th-century Swedish-based pidgin in the Swedish portion of Sápmi (specifically, the Lule River region), used
Borgarmålet
Greeting phrase in English
in Internet slang. Its origins in American English appear to stem from pidgin English, and it is widely accepted as a fixed expression. The phrase is
Long_time_no_see
English-based creole of Solomon Islands
Pijin (Solomonese Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; the three
Pijin
Creole language family
and Roquetas Pidgin Spanish used by agricultural workers in Spain. However, few Spanish pidgins ever creolized with speakers of most pidgins eventually
Spanish-based creole languages
Spanish-based_creole_languages
Pidgin term for child, also a racial slur
origins of the term are disputed. Along with several words for children in pidgin and creole languages, such as piccanin and pikinini, it may derive from
Pickaninny
American rapper (born 1991)
Odumodu Blvck, Tems, Rema and odas wey win for di 17th edition". BBC News Pidgin. April 27, 2025. Retrieved February 22, 2026. "Teen Choice Awards 2017 Reveal
Travis_Scott
European, 5 Sign and 13 Pidgin languages listed. In total 243 languages. Indigenous languages European language dialects Pidgin languages Indigenous languages
List of extinct languages of North America
List_of_extinct_languages_of_North_America
Topics referred to by the same term
Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English is any of a number of English contact pidgins spoken or once spoken in Australia: Port Jackson Pidgin English (New South
Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English
Australian_Aboriginal_Pidgin_English
Country in the Caribbean
(December 1989). Haggerty, Richard A. (ed.). "History of Haitian-Creole: From Pidgin to Lingua Franca and English Influence on the Language" (PDF). Library of
Haiti
Country in Oceania
culture with them, but the largest impact was the development of a Melanesian Pidgin that would eventually become the Tok Pisin language. Christianity was introduced
Papua_New_Guinea
Structured system of communication
language. But if the Pidgin language becomes the main language of a speech community, then eventually children will grow up learning the Pidgin language as their
Language
PIDGIN
PIDGIN
PIDGIN
PIDGIN
Girl/Female
Tamil
Beautiful
Male
Chinese
clear, bright.
Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Powerful Ruler
Girl/Female
Tamil
A forest in kerala
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Son of the Religion
Boy/Male
Tamil
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a patch of cleared woodland, from Middle English reden ‘clearing’.
Female
Yiddish
(גִּיטל) Variant spelling of Yiddish Gitel, GITTEL means "good."
Girl/Female
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Auspicious Apsara
Male
Finnish
Finnish form of Swedish Jörgen, JORKKI means "earth-worker, farmer."
PIDGIN
PIDGIN
PIDGIN
PIDGIN
PIDGIN