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Pidgin languages.

Here are entered works discussing lingua francas which are native to none of those using them and are characterized by a simplified grammar and often mixed vocabulary. Works discussing auxiliary, sometimes mixed, languages used among groups having no other language in common are entered under the heading Lingua francas. Works discussing languages resulting from the intermingling of phonological, grammatical and/or lexical elements from different languages in areas of intensive language contact are entered under the heading Languages, Mixed. Works discussing pidgin languages that have become established as the native languages of a speech community are entered under the heading Creole dialects.

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• Lingua francas

• Languages, Mixed

• Creole dialects
• Pidgin English

• Contact vernaculars
• Hybrid languages
• Jargons
• Pidgeon languages
• Pigeon languages

• Pidgin and Creole Languages: Essays in Memory of John E. Reinecke (originally published 1987; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), ed. by Glenn G. Gilbert (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• Pidgin and Creole Languages: Essays in Memory of John E. Reinecke (originally published 1987; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), ed. by Glenn G. Gilbert (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
• Roots of Language (originally published 1981; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Derek Bickerton (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)

• Creole Studies: Phylogenetic Approaches (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017), ed. by Peter Bakker, Finn Birchsenius, Carsten Levisen, and Eeva Sippola (PDF and Epub at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Chinook As Spoken By the Indians of Washington Territory, British Columbia and Alaska; for the Use of Traders, Tourists and Others Who Have Business Intercourse With the Indians: Chinook-English, English-Chinook (Victoria, BC: M. W. Waitt, ca. 1889), by C. M. Tate (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chinook Dictionary, Catechism, Prayers and Hymns (1871), by Modeste Demers and Francis Norbert Blanchet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An International Idiom: A Manual of the Oregon Trade Language, or "Chinook Jargon" (London: Whittaker, 1890), by Horatio Hale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon: the Complete Language Used By the Indians of Oregon, Washington Territory and British Possessions (San Francisco : Hutchings & Rosenfield, 1860) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon (Victoria, BC: T.N. Hibben, late 1800s) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pocket Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: the Indian Trading Language of Alaska, the Northwest Territory and the Northern Pacific Coast (San Francisco: Downing & Clark, 1898) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dictionary of Indian Tongues: Containing Most of the Words and Terms Used in the Tshimpsean, Hydah, & Chinook: With Their Meaning or Equivalent in the English Language (Victoria, BC: Hibben and Carswell, 1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chinook Jargon: The Hidden Language of the Pacific Northwest (2004), by Jim Holton (PDF files at rjholton.com)
• Chinook and Shorthand Rudiments: With Which the Chinook Jargon and the Wawa Shorthand Can be Mastered Without a Teacher in a Few Hours (1898), by J. M. R. Le Jeune (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It (Seattle: Rainier Printing Company, 1909), by George C. Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests, and Isthmiana, by Theodore Winthrop (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• Chinook Jargon: The Hidden Language of the Pacific Northwest (2004), by Jim Holton (PDF files at rjholton.com)

• Creole Studies: Phylogenetic Approaches (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017), ed. by Peter Bakker, Finn Birchsenius, Carsten Levisen, and Eeva Sippola (PDF and Epub at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Creol Psalm-Buk, of een Vergaedring van Oùwe en Nywe Psalmen na Creol-Tael (in Danish Creole; Copenhagen: P. T. Brünnich, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annancy Stories (New York: R. H. Russell, 1899), by Pamela Colman Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jamaica Anansi Stories, by Martha Warren Beckwith, contrib. by Helen H. Roberts (HTML with sheet-music images at sacred-texts.com)

• The Grandisimmes: A Story of Creole Life (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880), by George Washington Cable (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Grandissimes (1899 edition), by George Washington Cable, illust. by Albert Herter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Monsieur Motte, by Grace Elizabeth King (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Da Kine Talk: From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972), by Elizabeth Ball Carr, contrib. by Dong Jae Lee (PDF and EPub at Hawaii)

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