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Samoan Plantation Pidgin

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Region
  
Samoa

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Era
  
Effectively extinct

Glottolog
  
samo1307

Language family
  
English-based pidgin Pacific Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Samoan Plantation Pidgin is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by plantation workers in Samoa. It is closely related to Tok Pisin, due to the large number of New Guinean laborers in Samoa.

References

Samoan Plantation Pidgin Wikipedia