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Pidgin has some Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and even other influences.īrah / bruddah: brother or pal. Pidgin originates from the plantation workers, who came to Hawaii in the 19th century. In the bookstores you can even find and buy a Pidgin dictionary and a Bible called "Da Jesus Book," which is fully written in Pidgin. You might hear locals speaking this pidgin English, and pick up a few terms to use yourself. In fact, Pidgin has its own vocabulary and grammar. Hawaiian Pidgin is a variation of English words with influences from other languages, creating a language all of its own. Since many tourists find Pidgin attractive, local travel companies like to hire Pidgin speakers as customer service agents because they talk with this accent on the phone and tourists like that, thus they are more likely to buy. If you are native English speaker you will still get the meaning, but if you're not it may be difficult

That's why Pidgin is also considered a local attraction, so to say.

You won't hear this type of talk anywhere else in the world but in Hawaii. Pidgin is the Hawaiian English and it sounds like that - Eh, howzit? Wassamattah you? Cannah talk da kine? (Hey, how's it going? What's the matter? Can't you speak Pidgin?). The simplified, broken English was called Hawaiian Pidgin and full of slang phrases that most locales could eventually communicate and otherstand each other.