Bass Strait Pidgin

Bass Strait Pidgin
(unattested)
Native toAustralia
RegionBass Strait
EraEarly 19th century
English Creole, with elements, mainly, of the Flinders Island Lingua franca.[1] Also, contained words from the New Holland tribes, as well as, negrito words.[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone

Bass Strait Pidgin was an unattested English-based pidgin language spoken in the Bass Strait islands of Australia. It likely developed in the early 1800s as a result of contact between European sealers and Aboriginal women abducted from Tasmania.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Wurm, Stephen A.; Mühlhäusler, Peter; Tryon, Darrel T., eds. (2011). "Pidgin English in New South Wales". Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. pp. 27, 43. doi:10.1515/9783110819724. ISBN 9783110819724.