Français Tirailleur, a Pidgin language spoken in West Africa by soldiers in the French Colonial Army, approximately 1850–1960.Lingua Franca/ Mediterranean Lingua Franca ( Sabir, Petit Mauresque or Little Moorish) was spoken in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to the 19th century.Papuan Pidgin English (distinct from Tok Pisin).Port Jackson Pidgin English (ancestral to Australian Kriol).West African Pidgin English (multiple varieties) (Guinea Coast).Pidgins Germanic–Slavic English–Russian-based It is believed that the Indonesian language was one of the means to achieve independence, but it is opened to receive lexicons from other foreign languages as the words keep increasing each year that can be seen in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI).This is a list of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages and cants that are based or partially based on Indo-European languages.

The result of the study revealed that Indonesian was not either pidgin or creole since the characteristics features did not meet any of them.

This study was aimed to determine whether the Indonesian language was categorized into pidgin or creole. This research used library study to find the data since it was not possible to trace the data in the field. It was questioned whether the language was actually a pidgin that authorized into a creole since it was not only contained of Malay language but also languages that it was made contact with since colonialism eras, such as Dutch, English, Arabic, and other languages. Until now, the Indonesian language keeps borrowing words from other languages. It was derived from Malay language and established as a national language in 1928. Indonesian language or sometimes called Bahasa is the national language of Indonesia.

Pidgin creole