Pidgin Hawaiian
Pidgin Hawaiian (or Hawaii Plantation Pidgin) Pidgin Hawaiian: ‘Ōlelo pa‘i ‘ai was a pidgin spoken in Hawaii, which draws most of its vocabulary from the Hawaiian language and could have been influenced by other pidgins of the Pacific Ocean region, such as Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. Emerging in the mid-nineteenth century, it was spoken mainly by immigrants to Hawaii, and mostly died out in the early twentieth century, but is still spoken in some communities, especially on the Big Island.