A pidgin /ˈpɪdʒɪn/, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do...

Nigerian Pidgin, also known as Naijá in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes...

of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language...

Hawaiian Pidgin (alternately, Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE, known locally as Pidgin) is an English-based creole language spoken in Hawaiʻi. An estimated...

Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple that has support for...

originating from a Pidgin language. Pidgin may also refer to: Any one of several particular Pidgin languages commonly called "Pidgin". Pidgin (software), an...

In computer programming, pidgin code is a mixture of several programming languages in the same program, or pseudocode that is a mixture of a programming...

Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. Pidgins that are spoken as first languages...

[tok pisin]), often referred to by English speakers as New Guinea Pidgin or simply Pidgin, is a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. It is...

Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian language comprises four related English-derived languages of Melanesia: Bislama, of Vanuatu Solomon Islands Pidgin Tok Pisin...

Gulf Pidgin Arabic is an Arabic-based pidgin which is primarily used by migrant workers in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The variety was first...

Basque–Icelandic pidgin (Basque: Euskoislandiera, Islandiera-euskara pidgina; Icelandic: Basknesk-íslenskt blendingsmál) was a Basque-based pidgin spoken in...

BBC News Pidgin is an online news service in West African Pidgin English that was launched by the BBC World Service in 2017. It is based in Lagos, Nigeria...

monogenesis hypothesis posits that a single language, commonly called proto–Pidgin English, spoken along the West African coast in the early sixteenth century...

nascent French colonies. This article also contains information on French pidgin languages, contact languages that lack native speakers. These contact languages...

Chinese Pidgin English (also called Chinese Coastal English or Pigeon English) is a pidgin language lexically based on English, but influenced by a Chinese...

West African Pidgin English, also known as Guinea Coast Creole English, is a West African pidgin language lexified by English and local African languages...

Carib Pidgin may refer to: The Ndyuka-Tiriyó Pidgin, a pidgin language spoken in South America The "men's language" spoken by the Island Caribs in the...

Pidgin Madam is a pidgin language that is a mixture of Lebanese Arabic and traditional Sinhalese. Since the oil boom of the 1970s, several forms of Pidgin...

Pidgin Hawaiian (or Hawaii Plantation Pidgin) is a pidgin spoken in Hawaii, which draws most of its vocabulary from the Hawaiian language and could have...

Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English is any of a number of English contact pidgins spoken or once spoken in Australia: Port Jackson Pidgin English (New South...

Ghanaian Pidgin English (GhaPE) is a Ghanaian English-lexifier pidgin also known as Pidgin, Broken English, and Kru English (kroo brofo in Akan). GhaPE...

many Portuguese-based pidgins, used as linguas francas throughout the Portuguese sphere of influence. In time, many of these pidgins were nativized, becoming...

Japanese Pidgin English is any of several English-based pidgins spoken or influenced by the Japanese. Cape York Japanese Pidgin English, spoken in the...

Native American Pidgin English, sometimes known as American Indian Pidgin English (AIPE) was an English-based pidgin spoken by Europeans and Native Americans...

The Kiautschou German pidgin is a minor extinct pidgin spoken by German-educated Chinese in the Kiautschou Bay concession. There are records of some sort...

During the French colonial period, Carib men also spoke a Cariban-derived pidgin amongst themselves. At the time of European contact, the Kalinago lived...

Coroner's Pidgin is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1945, in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann, London and in the United States...

Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child...

franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria. Nigerian Pidgin – an English-based creole – is spoken by over 60 million people. The major...