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Seychellois Creole
Seychellois Creole, known to speakers as Seselwa, is a French-based creole spoken by about 85,000 people in the Seychelles, where it has official status with English and French.
Singlish
Singlish, or Colloquial Singapore English, is Singapore's English-based creole contact variety blending English with Malay, Hokkien, Cantonese, and Mandarin; known for particles like lah, opposed by the Speak Good English Movement yet embraced as a national identity marker.
Singlish vocabulary
Singlish vocabulary: words and expressions of Colloquial Singapore English, drawn from Malay, Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Tamil, including particles like lah, calques like catch no ball, and OED-listed terms like shiok.
Tok Pisin
Tok Pisin, also called Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian (New Guinea Pidgin English), is the English-based creole lingua franca of Papua New Guinea with about 4 million second-language and 120,000 native speakers; official language with English and Hiri Motu, over 80% English vocabulary with German and Tolai borrowings such as raus and balus.