Bass Strait Pidgin | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | Bass Strait |
Era | Early 19th century |
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] | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
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]