Melanesian Pidgin

Melanesian Pidgin
Melanesian Pidgin
Region	Melanesia
Language family	English-based pidgin and English Creole Pacific Melanesian Pidgin; ;
Dialects	Bislama; Solomon Islands Pijin; Tok Pisin; Torres Strait Creole;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; bis – Bislama; pis – Pijin; tcs – Torres Strait Creole; tpi – Tok Pisin
Glottolog	earl1243
IETF	cpe-054

Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian language comprises four related English-derived languages of Melanesia:

Bislama, of Vanuatu
Solomon Islands Pidgin
Tok Pisin, of Papua New Guinea
Torres Strait Creole, of the Torres Strait Islands and parts of Cape York

These languages are linked to workers from these places working on plantations in the Australian state of Queensland. Torres Strait Creole is the least closely related of the four.