South Australian Pidgin English

South Australian Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin contact language used between European settlers and Australian aboriginals. It began some time around or before 1820 on Kangaroo Island, a sealing and whaling base, between the sealers and whalers and their aboriginal wives while being influenced by Nautical Jargon and Port Jackson Pidgin English (PJPE). The center of the language shifted to Adelaide when South Australia was established in 1836, and was the contact medium between the colonists and the Kaurna people. The earliest written records of the language date from this period while the influence of PJPE continued and SAPE spread north. Northern languages influence the language during the 1860s but it retained its PJPE core. It seems to have stabilized by the 1890s and subsequently merged into English but traces of it remain in various English dialects.

Its phonology is mostly similar to standard English but it contains some differences.