List of English-based pidgins

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:


 * Aboriginal Pidgin English
 * Native American Pidgin English
 * Cameroonian Pidgin English
 * Chinese Pidgin English
 * Butler English (India)
 * Ghanaian Pidgin English
 * Hawaiian Pidgin English
 * Japanese Bamboo English
 * Japanese Pidgin English
 * Korean Bamboo English
 * Kru Pidgin English
 * Liberian Interior Pidgin English
 * Micronesian Pidgin English
 * Nauru Pidgin English
 * New Zealand Pidgin English
 * Nigerian Pidgin
 * Papua New Guinea Pidgin
 * Papuan Pidgin English (distinct from Tok Pisin)
 * Port Jackson Pidgin English (ancestral to Australian Kriol)
 * Queensland Kanaka English
 * Samoan Plantation Pidgin
 * Solomon Islands Pijin
 * Spanglish/Ingléspañol (including dialects Llanito, Belizean Kitchen Spanish, ABC Islands Spanglish)
 * Solombala-English
 * Thai Pidgin English
 * Tok Pisin
 * West African Pidgin English (multiple varieties)
 * Vanuatu Bislama
 * Franglish