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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Hawai'i Pidgin,Pidgin,Hce
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Hawaiʻi Pidgin English, Hawaiʻi Creole English, HCE, or simply Pidgin, is a creole language based in part on English used by most "local" residents of Hawaiʻi. Although English and Hawaiian are the co-official languages of the State of Hawaiʻi, Pidgin is used by many Hawaiʻi residents in everyday conversation and is often used in advertising toward Hawaiʻi residents. The new ISO 639-3 language code for Hawaiʻi Pidgin (Hawaiʻi Creole English) is hwc.
Pidgin (or Hawaiʻi Creole) originated as a form of communication used between English speaking residents and non-English speaking immigrants in Hawaiʻi. It supplanted the pidgin Hawaiian used on the plantations and elsewhere in Hawaiʻi. It has been influenced by many languages, including Portuguese, Hawaiian, and Cantonese. As people of other language backgrounds were brought in to work on the plantations, such as Japanese, Filipinos, and Koreans, Pidgin acquired words from these languages. Japanese loanwords in Hawaiʻi lists some of those words originally from Japanese. It has also been influenced to a lesser degree by Spanish spoken by Mexican and Puerto Rican settlers in Hawaiʻi.
Even today, Pidgin retains some influences from these<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=503857 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Hawai'i Creole English Language Speakers</h2>
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40.423000, -98.737224, United States</googlemap>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/united_states United States]</td></tr>
 
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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/americas Americas]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>hwc</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Creole Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[English based Creole Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Pacific English based Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Hawai'i Creole English Language]]</b>
 
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