Papuan Pidgin English | |
Era: | 19th century |
Familycolor: | Creole |
Fam2: | Pacific |
Iso3: | none |
Glotto: | papu1254 |
Glottorefname: | 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.