| Bass Strait Pidgin | |
| Familycolor: | pidgin |
| States: | Australia |
| Region: | Bass Strait |
| Era: | Early 19th century |
| Family: | English Creole, with elements, mainly, of the Flinders Island Lingua franca.[1] Also, contained words from the New Holland tribes, as well as, negrito words.[2] |
Bass Strait Pidgin was an unattested English-based pidgin language spoken in the Bass Strait islands of Australia. It likely developed in the early 1800s as a result of contact between European sealers and Aboriginal women abducted from Tasmania.[3]