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Torres Strait Creole (also Torres Strait Creole, Torres Strait Pidgin, Torres Strait Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole) is a creole language spoken on several Torres Strait Islands (Queensland, Australia). It counts approximately 25 000 mother-tongue speakers and several second-language speakers. It is widely used as a language of trade and commerce.
Related languages are Pijin of the Solomon Islands, Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea, and Bislama of Vanuatu.
Language code ISO 639-2: cpe.
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