Maritime Polynesian Pidgin
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maritime-polynesian-pidgin-295-2833486
title:
Maritime Polynesian Pidgin
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Maritime Polynesian Pidgin was a Polynesian-based pidgin that was the main contact language for European exploratory and whaling expeditions to the Pacific before the establishment of pidgin English, which dated to a century after the Cook expeditions. Drechsel (2014) concludes that reduced forms of Tahitian, Māori and Hawaiian, which may have predated European contact, were grammatically similar and mutually intelligible, and with European exploration merged into a regional contact language tha
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Pidgin language uses between European sailors and Polynesians.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_Polynesian_Pidgin
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2023-11-20T12:54:33Z
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