Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English (other)

	Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English (other) Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English is any of a number of English contact pidgins spoken or once spoken in Australia: * Port Jackson Pidgin English (New South Wales) * Queensland Kanaka English Queensland Kanaka English, Queensland Canefields English or Queensland Plantation Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by Melanesian labourers in Queensland, Australia from the late 1860s. See also Blackbirding ... South Australian Pidgin English {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Port Jackson Pidgin English Port Jackson Pidgin English or New South Wales Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin that originated in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales in the early days of colonisation. Stockmen carried it west and north as they expanded across Australia. It subsequently died out in most of the country, but was creolised (forming Australian Kriol) in the Northern Territory at the Roper River Mission (Ngukurr), where missionaries provided a safe place for Indigenous Australians from the surrounding areas to escape deprivation at the hands of European settlers. As the Indigenous Australians who came to seek refuge at Roper River came from different language backgrounds, there grew a need for a shared communication system to develop, and it was this that created the conditions for Port Jackson Pidgin English to become fleshed out into a full language, Kriol, based on English language and the eight different Australian language groups spoken by those at the mission. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Queensland Kanaka English Queensland Kanaka English, Queensland Canefields English or Queensland Plantation Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by Melanesian labourers in Queensland, Australia from the late 1860s. See also Blackbirding Blackbirding involves the coercion of people through deception or kidnapping to work as slaves or poorly paid labourers in countries distant from their native land. The term has been most commonly applied to the large-scale taking of people i ... Kanakas References Sources * * English-based pidgins and creoles of Australia Languages attested from the 1860s Culture of Queensland History of Queensland {{pidgincreole-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]