Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 8 compound words that contain pidgin. The most common are listed below. Open pidgin in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- Hawaiian PidginA creole language based in part on English used by most "local" residents of Hawaii.
- Nigerian PidginAn English-based creole of Nigeria, combining vocabulary and grammar from the English language as well as various indigenous Nigerian languages.
- Chinese pidgin EnglishAn English-lexifier pidgin used along the Chinese coast from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
- Pidgin Signed EnglishA sign language based on American Sign Language (ASL) and English.
- West Greenlandic PidginAn extinct Greenlandic-based contact language once used between the Inuit of Greenland and European traders.
- pidgin EnglishThe Chinese pidgin English spoken in Canton and Hong Kong, later spreading throughout the Chinese and Southeast Asian coastal region.
- Australian Pidgin EnglishA pidgin formerly used between Australian Aboriginal peoples and non-Aboriginal settlers in Australia, beginning with Port Jackson Pidgin English and developing into Australian Kriol.
- Melanesian Pidgin EnglishSynonym of Tok Pisin: One of the official languages of Papua New Guinea.
- Cameroonian Pidgin EnglishA creole spoken in Cameroon
- Hawaii Pidgin Sign LanguageA sign language used in Hawaii. The language is named after the Hawaiian Pidgin spoken language and is not itself a pidgin.
- Port Jackson Pidgin EnglishA former pidgin used between Australian Aboriginal peoples and non-Aboriginal settlers in the Sydney area in the early days of the British settlement of Australia; later developing into the more widespread Australian Pidgin English.
- Taimyr Pidgin RussianA Russian-based pidgin used by the Dolgans and Nganasans.
- Greenlandic Eskimo PidginA pidgin spoken in Greenland.
- pidgin Englishesplural of pidgin English: The Chinese pidgin English spoken in Canton and Hong Kong, later spreading throughout the Chinese and Southeast Asian coastal region.
- West African Pidgin PortugueseA hypothetical Portuguese-based pidgin spoken across the western coast of Africa between the 14ᵗʰ and 18ᵗʰ centuries, believed by some to be the proto-language of most or all modern creoles.
Compound words 8
- prepidginAn early mixture of languages capable of developing into a pidgin.
- pidginistA linguist who specializes in studying pidgins.
- pidginizationThe development of a pidgin language.
- pidginizeTo convert or adapt into a pidgin language.
- pidginogenicRelating to, or fostering, the formation of a pidgin.
- conpidginAn artificially constructed pidgin.
- pidginiseAlternative form of pidginize: To convert or adapt into a pidgin language.
- pidginistsplural of pidginist: A linguist who specializes in studying pidgins.