Torres Strait Creole

Torres Creole (also Torres Strait Creole, Torres Strait Pidgin, Torres Strait Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole ) is a belonging to the Queensland (Australia) Torres Strait Islander Creole language spoken. There are about 25,000 native speakers and is also as a trade language ( lingua franca ) is used. There are two dialects. The lexical similarity with English is 80 percent.

The language is used by their genesis forth closely with Tok Pisin, Bislama and Pijin.

The language code according to ISO 639-2 is cpe.

  • Single language
  • Pidgin or creole
  • Queensland
  • Torres Strait Islander
Torres Strait Islands
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