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Aboriginal English (5)
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Chinese-English Pidgin (4)
Geechee (4)
German-English Pidgin (3)
Gullah (4)
Hawaiian Pidgin (13)

Hobson-Jobson (6)
Jamaican Creole (7)
Manglish (2)
Nigerian Pidgin (3)
North American Black English (11)
Philippine-English Pidgin (3)
Pitcairnese and Norfolkese (1)

Sierra Leone Krio (3)
Singlish (9)
Solomon Islands Pijin (1)
Spanglish (6)
Sranan (1)
Tok Pisin (26)

Web Pages

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Dunglish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunglish
Encyclopedia article on Danish-English pidgin.

Electronic Text Center: Liberian Letters - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/liberia/
A collection of letters written by African-American settlers in 19th century Liberia.

english or English? Attitudes, Local Varieties and English Language Teaching - http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/tesl-ej/ej09/a2.html
This article discusses the issues surrounding the phenomenon of local varieties of English, those developments which take place where forms of the ex-colonial language have evolved and developed in their own right independently of their metropolitan sources.

Finglish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finglish
Brief encyclopedia article on Finnish-English pidgin.

Frainglais - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franglais
Encyclopedia article on French-English pidgin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globish
Encyclopedia article on globalized English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namlish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namlish
Brief encyclopedia article about English as spoken in Namibia.

Konglish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konglish
Encyclopedia article on Korean-English pidgin.

Language Lessons for Visitors - Anguilla Local News Index - http://www.news.ai/language.html
Six brief "lessons" in the form of word definitions.

Leeward Caribbean Creole English: A Language of Antigua and Barbuda - http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=AIG
Summary of the linguistic situation of Leeward Caribbean Creole English.

Montserrat Creole - an Irish brogue? - http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/brogue.htm
An analysis of the alleged Irish influence on Montserrat Creole.

Pseudo-Anglicism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Anglicism
Encyclopedia article on non-standard word borrowing in English.

Runglish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runglish
Encyclopedia article on Russian-English pidgin.

Runglish - http://runglish1.narod.ru/
A detailed description of Russian English pidgin.

Standardization of Melanesian Pidgin English (Tok Pisin) - http://www.pca.uni-siegen.de/doc/10/10.pdf
Full text of a 2002 paper by Valeri Khabirov.

Swenglish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swenglish
Encyclopedia article on Swedish-English pidgin.

The Corpus of Written British Creole: A User's Guide - http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/mark/cwbc/cwbcman.htm#What is the Corpus of Written British
A description of written Caribbean English creoles.

Tinglish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinglish
Encyclopedia article on Thai-English pidgin.

Trini Talk: A Dialect Poem by Miguel Browne - http://users.rcn.com/alana.interport//trinital.htm
A poem in Trinidadian English.

Yinglish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinglish
Brief encyclopedia article on Yiddish-English pidgin.

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