What is Queensland Kanaka English?
{{Infobox language |name=Queensland Kanaka English |region=[[Queensland]], Australia |era=from 1860s |familycolor=Pidgin | fam1 = [[English-based pidgin]] | fam2 = Pacific |script=[[Latin script|Latin]] |iso3=none |glotto=quee1234 |glottorefname=Queensland Kanaka English }} '''Queensland Kanaka English''', '''Queensland Canefields English''' or '''Queensland Plantation Pidgin English''' is an [[English language|English]]-based [[pidgin]] spoken by [[Melanesian people|Melanesians]] labourers in parts of [[Queensland]] during the late 1860s.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/language-in-australia/queensland-kanaka-english/3D161853FC8CE6BB49BEB1680C953F61|title=Language in Australia|last=Mühlhäusler|first=Peter|date=July 6, 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|editor-last=Romaine|editor-first=Suzanne|pages=174 - 179}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Queensland Kanaka English|url=https://en.wal.unesco.org/languages/queensland-kanaka-english|access-date=2023-04-14|website=UNESCO WAL|language=en|archive-date=2023-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414194206/https://en.wal.unesco.org/languages/queensland-kanaka-english|url-status=dead}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{stub}} [[Category:English-based pidgins]] [[Category:Queensland]]