The three main Melanesian Pidgin languages are:

‍ ‍ Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea)

Example: "Mi laik baiim wanpela bilum." (I want to buy a bilum.)

Used by ~4 million speakers; PNG’s de facto national language.

Bislama (Vanuatu)

Example: "Hemi gat wan naesfala fois." (It has a beautiful song/dance.)

Official language alongside English/French; ~200,000 speakers.

Pijin (Solomon Islands)

Example: "Yu save karem  kam kaikai ia?" (Can you bring some food?)

Widely spoken but not official; ~300,000 speakers.

All evolved from 19th-century plantation pidgin English + local languages.

Share ~80% vocabulary but differ in pronunciation/grammar.

Not "broken English"—full-fledged creoles with rich oral traditions.