A variety of English used between indigenous peoples and settlers in Australia, particularly in the nineteenth century.
Melanesian Pidgin and Australian Pidgin shared a number of features
Example sentencesExamples
- This has given way to an increased use of Australian Pidgin, with the Aboriginal language gradually falling into disuse.
- English was used exclusively, with the now largely extinct Australian pidgin (which is different from New Guinea pidgin) as a crutch in earlier days.
- A list of Australian Pidgin words and phrases follows.
- This is similar to the use of /bin/ as past for 'be' and also as a past-tense auxiliary in Australian Pidgin.
- I was speaking Australian Pidgin, because my formality tends to crumble under the pressure.
- This was one of the local varieties of the general Australian Pidgin (AP) that developed out of New South Wales Pidgin.
- Australian pidgin had far-reaching influence on pidgin languages, even further afield in the Pacific region.
- The article explores the possible influence of Australian pidgin on Melanesian Pidgin.
- The interest in Australian pidgin and creole languages went into a lull in the 1990s.
- Numerous Australian pidgin words are finding their way into white Australian speech.