 The third language of the Torres Straits is a creole that developed from Torres Strait Pidgin English, the earliest records of which date to the mid 1800s, though creolisation started in the 1880s at the earliest.This Torres Strait Creole is also known as "Blaikman Tok", "Broken/Brokan" and "Yumplatok".It has five dialects – Papuan, Western-Central, Eastern, TI and Cape York.