Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Infobox Language
name=Samoan Plantation Pidgin
region=Samoa
extinct=Effectively extinct.
iso2=cpe
familycolor=Creole
family=English-based pidgin
notice=nonotice

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

*cite book |author=Mühlhäusler, Peter |year=1983 |chapter=Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin |editor=Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh |title=The Social Context of Creolization |pages=28–76


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