Region New Guinea ISO 639-3 None (mis) | Era 19th century Glottolog papu1254 | |
Language family English-based pidgin
Pacific
Papuan Pidgin English | ||
Papuan Pidgin English was a 19th-century English-based pidgin of New Guinea. It was eventually replaced by Hiri Motu, a Melanesian-based pidgin, and was not ancestral to modern English-based Tok Pisin.
References
Papuan Pidgin English Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA