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Torres Strait Creole (also Torres Strait Pidgin Yumplatok Torres Strait Brokan/Broken Cape York Creole Lockhart Creole Papuan Pidgin English Broken English Brokan/Broken Blaikman Big Thap) is an English-based creole language spoken on several Torres Strait Islands (Queensland Australia) Northern Cape York and South-Western Coastal Papua. It has approximately 25000 mother-tongue and bi/tri-lingual speakers as well as several second/third-language speakers.