small number of speakers, it is the basis of a local pidgin. It has 18 consonants and 5 vowels. Onin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...

("trade language") that was called Bazaar Malay or low Malay and in Malay Melayu Pasar. It is generally believed that Bazaar Malay was a pidgin, influenced...

(Kapaur) is a Papuan language spoken on the tip of the Bomberai Peninsula. It is the basis of a pidgin used as the local trade language. Marginal phonemes...

language". Fijian is a VOS language. Standard Fijian is based on the Bau dialect, which is an East Fijian language. A pidginized form is used by many Indo-Fijians...

*mans(a,ə)r. Proto-South Halmahera: *do Proto-Aru: *wagal North Bomberai languages: Onin: yawat Sekar: kawat Arguni: rawake Proto-North Halmahera (non-Austronesian):...

Hawaiian speakers. However, the language is still classified as critically endangered by UNESCO. A creole language, Hawaiian Pidgin (or Hawaii Creole English...

that are not associated with Malay or Indonesian, including Biak, Iban and Onin.[page needed] As early as the seventh century AD, the natives of the archipelago...

Kupang Malay is a Malay-based creole language spoken in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, which is on the west end of Timor Island. Kupang Malay is presently...

Chinese men and Balinese women in Batavia converted to Islam and spoke a pidgin that was later creolized, and then decreolized incorporating many elements...

Portugis, or Ternateño, was a Portuguese-based creole language spoken by Christians of mixed Portuguese and Malay ancestry in the islands of Ambon and...