Source:  
Tryon, Darrell. 2007. Australia:Time of Contact. Atlas of the World's Languages, ed. by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley, 131. Oxford: Routledge.

"Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Composite". Multitree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships

Date Digitized:  August 2011

Map Description:
An overarching term for the various pidginized and creolized forms of Malay is 'Bazaar Malay' which is seen to have the widest geographical coverage in this map. It has been used as a trade language for almost five centuries and is today spoken by millions. This map also shows the distribution of other specific varieties of pidgins, creoles and lingua francas spoken in The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.


Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
This folder (Australia and the Pacific: Pidgins, Creoles and Lingua Francas) contains other maps which show the distribution of varieties spoken in this region. These maps can be observed side-by-side.