Samoan Plantation Pidgin

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Samoan Plantation Pidgin
RegionSamoa
EraEffectively extinct
English-based pidgin
  • Pacific
    • Samoan Plantation Pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologsamo1307

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.

External links[]

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


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