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A pidgin /ˈpɪdʒɪn/, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do...

Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple that has support for...

[tok pisin]), often referred to by English speakers as New Guinea Pidgin or simply Pidgin, is an English creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea...

of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language...

southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia by a quarter million speakers. A Tukang Besi pidgin is used in the area. The northern dialect of Tukang Besi has 25 consonant...

Papua. Despite the small number of speakers, it is the basis of a local pidgin. It has 18 consonants and 5 vowels. Onin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...

language spoken on the tip of the Bomberai Peninsula. It is the basis of a pidgin used as the local trade language. Marginal phonemes are in parentheses....

Nigerian Pidgin, also known simply as Pidgin or Broken (Broken English) or as Naijá in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua...

and elites and middle-class people of pure Chinese blood. A Portuguese pidgin was used more widely. Currently, there is only one school in Macau where...

monogenesis hypothesis posits that a single language, commonly called proto–Pidgin English, spoken along the West African coast in the early sixteenth century...

nascent French colonies. This article also contains information on French pidgin languages, contact languages that lack native speakers. These contact languages...

Hawaiian Pidgin (alternately, Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE, known locally as Pidgin) is an English-based creole language spoken in Hawaiʻi. An estimated...

are Duvde, Duve, Duvele, Duvre. It is also known as Wiri. A Duvle-based pidgin is used with speakers of Wano as well. Duvle at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...

some thousands of speakers in Zambia and Mozambique. There is an extinct pidgin Chikunda once used for trade. Kunda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...

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...

Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of its capital...

strangely-conjugated verbs. Mark Liberman (April 25, 2007). "Language Log: Kitty Pidgin and asymmetrical tail-wags". Archived from the original on April 28, 2007...

in New Guinea, and is second over all after Papuan Malay. An Enga-based pidgin is used by speakers of Arafundi languages. There are currently over 150...

itself a pidgin, it is commonly known as Hawaiʻi Pidgin Sign Language or Pidgin Sign Language due to its historical association with Hawaiʻi Pidgin. Linguists...

native names as compared to the common names: Tobi is the basis of a local pidgin. animal = mar coconut palm = ruh goodbye = sabuho language = ramarih soldierfish...