Torres Strait Creole

Facts

  • Language: Torres Strait Creole
  • Alternate names: Torres Strait Pidgin, Lockhart Creole, Torres Strait Broken, West Torres, Cape York Creole, Yumplatok, Ap-Ne-Ap, Blaik, Creole
  • Language code: tcs
  • Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, North Sea Germanic, Anglo-Frisian, Anglic, Later Anglic, Middle-Modern English, Macro-English, Pacific Creole English, Early Melanesian Pidgin
  • Creole language
  • Number of speakers: ~6000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    A creolization of Tok Pisin (See: [[Tok Pisin]]) or Bislama (See: [[Bislama]]) and Kala Lagaw (See: [[Kala Lagaw Ya]]).

    Torres Strait Creole is spoken in Australia, Australia.