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Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is a pidgin that sprung up in Broome, Western Australia in the early 20th century to facilitate
communication between the various groups working in the pearling industry there—Japanese, Malays, Torres Strait Islanders,
Koepangers, Hakka Chinese, Filipinos, a small number of Koreans, and local Australian Aborigines, mainly of the Bardi tribe
but also Nyulnyul, Jabirrjabirr, Jukun, Yawuru and Karajarri people. Its words come primarily from the Malay language, but
it also took some words and grammatical features from Japanese, English (through the Pidgin English of the Aborigines), and
the local Australian Aboriginal languages. For example, the following sentence contains a Malay verb and Japanese grammatical
particles, with the remaining words coming from English: Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is no longer in active use today, but
some words and phrases that originated in the pidgin are still used by younger generations of Asian-Aboriginals as a marker
of ethnic identity. |
Names (more)[en] Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin |
Language type : Living
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