Japanese Pidgin English

This article is about the pidgin spoken in Japan. For other Japanese-English pidgins spoken elsewhere, see Japanese Pidgin English (disambiguation)

Japanese Pidgin English
Spoken in	Japan
Native speakers	19th century
Language family	English-based pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-2	cpe
ISO 639-3	–

Japanese Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin that was spoken in Japanese ports, such as Yokohama, in the 19th century.

See also

• Japanese Bamboo English, a similar pidgin following the Second World War

References

• Smith, Norval (1994). "An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages". In Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken, Norval Smith (eds.). Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 331–374. 
• Norman, Arthur M. Z. (1955). "Bamboo English: The Japanese Influence Upon American Speech". American Speech 30 (1): pp. 44–48. doi:10.2307/454192. JSTOR 454192.