{{Short description|None}} {{redirect|Pidgin English|the 2011 novel|Pigeon English|the 2007 album|Pigeon English (album)|pigeons of England|List of pigeon breeds}} {{distinguish|Pig Latin}} '''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 become creoles.
English-based pidgins that became stable contact languages, and which have some documentation, include the following:
*Aboriginal Pidgin English *Native American Pidgin English *Cameroonian Pidgin English *Chinese Pidgin English *Butler English (India) *Ghanaian Pidgin English *Hawaiian Pidgin English *Japanese Bamboo English *Japanese Pidgin English *Korean Bamboo English *Kru Pidgin English *Liberian Interior Pidgin English *Micronesian Pidgin English *Nauru Pidgin English *New Zealand Pidgin English *Nigerian Pidgin *Papua New Guinea Pidgin *Papuan Pidgin English (distinct from Tok Pisin) *Port Jackson Pidgin English (ancestral to Australian Kriol) *Queensland Kanaka English *Samoan Plantation Pidgin *Solombala English *Solomon Islands Pijin *Spanglish/Ingléspañol (including dialects Llanito, Belizean Kitchen Spanish, ABC Islands Spanglish) *Thai Pidgin English *Tok Pisin *West African Pidgin English (multiple varieties) *Vanuatu Bislama *Franglish
==See also== * English-based creoles * Macaronic languages * Rally English * World Englishes
==References== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book |author=Smith, Norval |year=1994 |chapter=An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages |title=Pidgins and Creoles |editor=Jacque Arends, Pieter Muysken & Norval Smith |publisher=John Benjamins}} *{{cite web |url=http://americanitalian.net/ |title=American Italian |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=2009}} {{refend}}
{{English dialects by continent}} * English Pidgins