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:
American Indian Pidgin English
Cameroonian Pidgin English
Chinese Pidgin English
Butler English (India)
Hawaiian Pidgin English
Japanese Bamboo English
Japanese Pidgin English
Korean Bamboo English
Kru Pidgin English
Liberian Interior Pidgin English
Micronesian Pidgin English
Nauru Chinese Pidgin English
Nigerian Pidgin
Papuan Pidgin English (Tok Pisin)
Port Jackson Pidgin English (ancestral to Australian Kriol)
Queensland Kanaka English
Samoan Plantation Pidgin
Solombala-English
Thai Pidgin English
West African Pidgin English (multiple varieties)
Aboriginal Pidgin English
Vanuatu Bislama
Solomon Islands Pijin
Italian American Pidgin English
