Bass Strait Pidgin

English-based pidgin language

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Bass Strait Pidgin

Native to| Australia
Region| Bass Strait
Era| Early 19th century

Language family

English Creole

* Bass Strait Pidgin

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.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Gruyter, De (2011). Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. pp. 27, 43. ISBN 9783110819724.

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