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