View source for Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin Language (bpl)


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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Malay Talk,Broom Creole,Japanese Pidgin English,Koepang Talk


<b>Description:</b>

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 (specifically Kupang Malay), 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.<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=6211708 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin Language Speakers</h2>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/australia Australia]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania] 
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>bpl</td></tr>

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&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Pidgin Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Malay based Pidgin Group]]

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin Language]]</b>

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