Bonin English

Bonin English
Ogasawara English
Native toJapan
RegionOgasawara Islands (also called Bonin islands)
Native speakers
(undated figure of Possibly 1,000–2,000[citation needed])
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologboni1239
IETFcpe-u-sd-jp13

Bonin English, or the Bonin Islands language, is an English-based creole of the Ogasawara Islands (informally called Bonin Islands) south of Japan with strong Japanese influence, to the extent that it has been called a mixture of English and Japanese.[1]

  1. ^ Long, Daniel (2006). "English on the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands". American Speech. Publication of the American Dialect Society, 91. 81 (5). American Dialect Society (Duke University Press). ISBN 978-0-8223-6671-3.