Nauru Pacific Pidgin
Facts
- Language: Nauru Pacific Pidgin
- Alternate names: NPP, Melanesian-Chinese Mixed Pidgin English in Nauru
- Language code: cpi
- Language family: Pidgin, English based, Pacific (SIL classification)
- Pidgin language
- Number of speakers:
- Vulnerability: Threatened
- Script:
More information:
Mixture of Melanesian and a Chinese type of pidgin English. In spite of low social status, it remains a viable everyday language in Nauru.
Wurm 2007; Siegel 1990