Surf these sites: Author resurrects Pidgin English -- Author Lois-Ann Yamanaka discusses her use of Hawaiian creole pidgin in her novels. Hawaiian Creole vocabulary -- .WAV files for several words and phrases. Pidgin 101 -- A list of Hawaiian Pidgin phrases. Pidgin lives -- Hawaii''s immigrants built a language of their own -- their children pass it on. More than 100 years after pidgin developed as an "emergency language" among immigrants on Hawaiian plantations, its offshoot can be heard from the streets of Honolulu to the rural outskirts of Hana, Maui. Pidgin to da Max - Hawaii Kine Talk -- This site is a humorous look at street talk - local style.
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