Samoan Plantation Pidgin

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Samoan Plantation Pidgin
Spoken in: Samoa
Language extinction: Effectively extinct.
Language family: English-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: cpe
ISO 639-3: –

 

Samoan Plantation Pidgin is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by plantation workers in Samoa. It is closely related to Tok Pisin, due to the large number of New Guinean laborers in Samoa.

[edit] References

  • Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76. 
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