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Bass Strait Pidgin
Native toAustralia
RegionBass Strait
EraEarly 19th century
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

  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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