List of English-based pidgins

Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. Pidgins that are spoken as first languages become creoles.

English-based pidgins that became stable contact languages, and which have some documentation, include the following:

• Aboriginal Pidgin English
• Native American Pidgin English
• Cameroonian Pidgin English
• Chinese Pidgin English
• Butler English (India)
• Ghanaian Pidgin English
• Hawaiian Pidgin English
• Japanese Bamboo English
• Japanese Pidgin English
• Samoan Plantation Pidgin
• Korean Bamboo English
• Kru Pidgin English
• Liberian Interior Pidgin English
• Micronesian Pidgin English
• Nauru Pidgin English
• New Zealand Pidgin English
• Nigerian Pidgin
• Papua New Guinea Pidgin
• Papuan Pidgin English (distinct from Tok Pisin)
• Port Jackson Pidgin English (ancestral to Australian Kriol)
• Queensland Kanaka English
• Samoan Plantation Pidgin
• Solomon Islands Pijin
• Spanglish/Ingléspañol (including dialects Llanito, Belizean Kitchen Spanish, ABC Islands Spanglish)
• Solombala-English
• Thai Pidgin English
• Tok Pisin
• West African Pidgin English (multiple varieties)
• Vanuatu Bislama
• Franglish