South Australian Pidgin English
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south-australian-pidgin-english-265-3049243
title:
South Australian Pidgin English
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South Australian Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin contact language used between European settlers and Australian aborigines. It began some time around or before 1820 on Kangaroo Island, a sealing and whaling base, between the sealers and whalers and their aboriginal 'wives', who were abducted from Tasmania or the Adelaide Plains. It likely developed from or was at least influenced by Nautical Jargon and New South Wales Pidgin English. The center of the language shifted to Adelaide when
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English-based pidgin contact language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australian_Pidgin_English
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2023-01-18T11:21:01Z
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