Japanese-based creole languages

Japanese-based creole languages or simply Japanese Creoles are creole languages for which Japanese is the lexifier. This article also contains information on Japanese pidgin languages, contact languages that lack native speakers.

List

Some important Japanese creoles and pidgins are the following:

Creole Location Status
Yilan Creole[1] Taiwan endangered
Kyowa-go[2] China extinct
Yokohama Pidgin Japanese[3] Japan extinct
Ogasawara Creole[4] Ogasawara Islands extinct
Japanese Bamboo English Japan critically endangered

Japanese has also made a significant contribution to other pidgins and creoles: to Ogasawara Creole, with an English-based lexicon, spoken in Ogasawara Islands,[5] to the Chinese-based Xieheyu spoken in Manchukuo, to the Bamboo English of occupied Japan, and to the Hawaiian Pidgin which became a creole spoken in Hawaii.

See also

References

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  2. ^ "文献に現れた述語形式と国語史の不整合性について". www.ne.jp. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  3. ^ Avram, Andrei A. (2014-12-31). "Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Revisited". Acta Linguistica Asiatica. 4 (2): 67–84. doi:10.4312/ala.4.2.67-84. ISSN 2232-3317. (2014). "Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Revisited". Acta Linguistica Asiatica. 4 (2): 67–84. doi:10.4312/ala.4.2.67-84.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Glottolog 4.7 - Bonin English Pidgin". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
  5. ^ LONG, DANIEL (2007). "WHEN ISLANDS CREATE LANGUAGES or, Why do language research with Bonin (Ogasawara) Islanders?" (PDF). Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures. 1 (1).