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 simply as Pidgin or Broken (Broken English) or as Naijá in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Pidgin English New Zealand Pidgin English Nigerian Pidgin Papua New Guinea Pidgin Papuan Pidgin English (distinct from Tok Pisin) Port Jackson Pidgin...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Pidgin Delaware (also Delaware Jargon or Trader's Jargon) was a pidgin language that developed between speakers of Unami Delaware and Dutch traders and...

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

pidgins. Additionally, Maridi Arabic may have been an 11th-century pidgin. The Arabic creoles and pidgins are: Bimbashi Arabic, a colonial-era pidgin...

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

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

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...

Pidgin Wolof is a pidgin language based on Wolof, spoken in the Gambia. Norval Smith (1994). "26. An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages"...

Algonquian–Basque pidgin, also known as Souriquois, is a Basque-based pidgin proposed by linguist Peter Bakker to have been spoken by Basque whalers and...

According to the theory of monogenesis in its most radical form, all pidgins and creole languages of the world can be ultimately traced back to one linguistic...