Queensland Kanaka English
- Queensland Kanaka English
Infobox Language
name=Queensland Kanaka English
speakers=
region=Queensland, Australia
familycolor=Pidgin
family=English-based pidgin.
script=Latin alphabet
notice=nonotice
iso2=cpe
Queensland Kanaka English, Queensland Canefields English or Queensland Plantation Pidgin English is an English-based pidgin language that was spoken by Melanesian labourers in Queensland, Australia from the late 1860s.
References
*cite book |author=Dutton, Thomas E. |year=1980 |title=Queensland Canefields English of the late nineteenth century |publisher=Pacific Linguistics
*cite journal |author=Dutton, Thomas E. |coauthors=Mühlhäusler, Peter |year=1984 |title=Queensland Kanaka English |journal=English World-Wide |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=231–264
ee also
*Blackbirding
*Kanakas
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