Torres Strait Creole
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Torres Strait Creole (also Torres Strait Pidgin, Torres Strait Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole) is a creole language spoken on several Torres Strait Islands (Queensland, Australia). It has approximately 25 000 mother-tongue speakers and several second-language speakers. It is widely used as a language of trade and commerce. It has around five dialects: Papuan, Western-Central, TI, Eastern, and Cape York.
Related languages are Pijin of the Solomon Islands, Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea, and Bislama of Vanuatu.
Language code ISO 639-2: cpe.br:Kreoleg Torres Strait de:Torres Creole eo:Toresa kreola lingvo
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Non-native languages:
Indo-European: Australian English and Australian Aboriginal English • Torres Strait Creole • Kriol
Austronesian: Cocos Islands Malay
Other: Auslan
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages:
Native isolates:: Enindhilyagwa • Laragiya • Ngurmbur • Tiwi
Established native:: Bunaban • Daly • Limilngan • Djeragan • Nyulnyulan • Wororan
Newly proposed native: Mindi • Djamindjungan • West Barkly • Arnhem Land macrofamily • Burarran • Yiwaidjan • Giimbiyu • Kakadu • Umbugarla
Macro-Pama Nyungan: Gunwinyguan and perhaps the Ngurmbur isolate
Greater Pama-Nyungan: Tankic • Garawa • Pama-Nyungan proper
Other: Minkin and languages of Tasmania
