Yes, there are definitely similarities across many Pacific pidgins. I am not so familiar with these as I am with Atlantic pidgins and creoles so I don't know the extent of contact between the early speakers in the Pacific - I suppose the prevelance of island nations might have made contact less frequent. But there is something in the way these languages developed which has made them develop very similar grammars.

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Sarah FitzGerald
Sarah FitzGerald

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I write funny things about parenting and well researched things about linguistics

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