{{Infobox Language
|name=Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin
|region=Broome,_Western_Australia
|speakers=40 (Ethnologue)
|familycolor=Pidgin
|family=Malay-based Pidgin.
|iso2=crp
|iso3=bpl
}}
'''Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin''' is a Pidgin that sprung up in Broome,_Western_Australia in the early 20th century to facilitate communication between the various groups working in the pearling industry there—Japanese, Malays, Koepangers, Hakka Chinese, Filipinos, a small number of Koreans, and local Australian Aborigines, mainly of the Bardi tribe but also Nyulnyul, Jabirrjabirr, Jukun, Yawuru and Karajarri people. Its words come primarily from the Malay_language (specifically Kupang_Malay), but it also took some words and grammatical features from Japanese, English (through the Pidgin English of the Aborigines), and the local Australian_Aboriginal_languages.
For example, the following sentence contains a Malay verb, Japanese grammatical particles, with the remaining words coming from English:
{| class="wikitable"
| ''Chirikurok'' || ''-kaa'' || ''hokurok'' || ''-kaa'' || ''peke'' || ''kriki.''
|- style="text-size: 50%;"
| English: "three o'clock" || Japanese: "or" || English: "four o'clock" || Japanese: "or" || Malay: "go" || English: "creek"
|-
|colspan="6"| "We will enter the creek at three or four o'clock."
|}
Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is no longer in active use today, but some words and phrases that originated in the pidgin are still used by younger generations of Asian-Aboriginals as a marker of ethnic identity.
==References==
*{{cite book |last=Gordon |first=Raymond G., Jr. |year=2005 |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |other=Fifteenth edition |location=Dallas, Tex. |publisher=SIL International |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bpl}}
*{{cite book |last=Hosokawa |first=Komei |year=1987 |chapter=Malay talk on boat: an account of Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin |editor=D. Laycock and W. Winter |title=A World of Language: Papers Presented to Professor S.A. Wurm on his 65th Birthday |location=Canberra |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |pages=287–296}}
*{{cite book |last=McGregor |first=William |year=2004 |title=The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia |location=London, New York |publisher=Taylor & Francis |pages=69–71}}
Category:Pidgins_and_creoles
Category:Languages_of_Australia