Bass Strait Pidgin

Bass Strait Pidgin
Bass Strait Pidgin
Native to	Australia
Region	Bass Strait
Era	Early 19th century
Language family	English Creole Bass Strait Pidgin;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

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

↑ Gruyter, De (2011). Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. pp. 27, 43. ISBN 9783110819724.

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