Linguistics of a 16th century Asian Slave Creole language

Continuing from WI: Asian Slaves in 16th Century America.

The POD of the ATL is the early Christianization of West Africa and alternate New Laws proposed by Bartolome de Casas which forbids enslavement of African people. Due to the restrictions, several Iberian colonies in the Americas undergoes an economic downturn.

However, a loophole in the alternate New Laws combined with the European expeditions into the East Indies and the establishment of trading posts in Asia causes an opportunity to gain slave labor. The Trans-Pacific Slave Trade is established as people around Asia enslaved by being captured in raids, purchased in auctions or ended up being sold.

The Asian slaves are shipped in slave freighters heading to the Iberian colonies in America, mostly Peru, Mexico, Chile and Brazil. Upon landing, they are sent to work in tasks such as mining, sugarcane farming, fishing and other dangerous tasks assigned for slaves.
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In the colonies, the necessity of easy communication between Iberian masters and Asian slaves of many different ethnicities causes the formation of a creole language known as Basa Prendiz. The language is the result of pidgin forms of Portuguese, Spanish and other plethora of Asian languages mixing together to form a creole.

The major ethnic stock of the Asian slaves in the Iberian colonies of America are:
  • Malays
  • Chinese
  • Thais
  • Koreans
  • Japanese
  • Visayans
  • Iban
  • Batak
  • Negritos
  • Javanese
  • Tagalogs
  • Vietnamese
  • Tamils
  • Konkani
What would the language be like?
 
The POD of the ATL is the early Christianization of West Africa
This won't work. The Kongo was Christianized almost immediately and remained an important source of slaves for the Portuguese colonies.

Anyways, a few important things to note:
  • The Ming government will not allow large numbers of Chinese to be sold abroad into slavery (preferably zero), while the Spaniards have a lot better things to buy from Japan, Java, or Vietnam than slaves. Most of Asia was much more economically developed than Africa and much more politically opposed to the sale of slaves to Europeans (for Confucian reasons in the case of China, for religious reasons in Islamic South and Southeast Asia), making the slave trade that much less economically profitable. The presence of Korean slaves in the sixteenth-century Americas is outright impossible except during Hideyoshi's very exceptional 1590s invasions.
  • The Pacific is much, much larger than the Atlantic. Slave death rates will be far higher. All this means that there will be far less Asian slaves ITTL than there were African slaves IOTL.
  • By the seventeenth century, the decline of Iberia would make Europeans go back to the Atlantic slave trade again (since this Pacific slave trade would be far less economical than buying Africans and be basically held afloat by law and religious belief than by financial sense). But most creole languages in the Americas go back only to the seventeenth century. (Sranan, which has the earliest attestation IIRC, was basically around by the early eighteenth century.)
  • For disputed reasons, there are almost no Spanish-based creoles in the Americas, very possibly none at all. Out of the three listed on Wikipedia, Palenquero was heavily influenced by Forro Creole (it might have started out as a dialect of Forro, even). Forro Creole is Portuguese-based, and so Palenquero doesn't really count as a Spanish-based creole. Bozal Spanish, from what little we know of it, was not a creole at all but just referred to the broken way slaves newly arrived from Africa spoke Spanish. Not sure about Chota, admittedly, but McWhorter's research suggests that most Afro-Ecuadorians in Esmeraldas show no signs of ever having spoken a creole.
With all this in mind, I'm gonna say there is very little chance that there would be any Asian slave creole languages in the sixteenth-century Americas barring a far earlier POD.
 
This won't work. The Kongo was Christianized almost immediately and remained an important source of slaves for the Portuguese colonies.

In this timeline, the alternate New Laws proposed by Bartolome de Casas which forbids enslavement of Africans and Native Americans in the 16th century, causing the Iberian colonists to turn to other sources of labor in the colonies.

@CalBear: Can you change the title? Rename it to "Linguistics of a 17th century Asian Slave Creole language"
 
the alternate New Laws proposed by Bartolome de Casas which forbids enslavement of Africans and Native Americans in the 16th century, causing the Iberian colonists to turn to other sources of labor in the colonies.
Very few creoles are Spanish-based, and slave labor was most needed outside the Spanish colonies. The Pacific is large and slave trading is much less profitable in Asia. There will be far fewer slaves in the Americas in any timeline than there were African ones IOTL, and the nations that traded in large quantities of African slaves will not follow Spanish laws anyways.

I rest my case.
 
There was a fairly common Malay/Portuguese creole in the Portuguese Empire and used around there. As I recall, it was in use for quite a long time, including in Dutch colonies
 
What about an indentured labour system, where the passage is taken at the risk of the labourer who’s attracted by the promise of land like for Europeans but with a bigger labour pool and less chance of what actually happens in the new world or survival rates reaching the other side.
 
What about an indentured labour system, where the passage is taken at the risk of the labourer who’s attracted by the promise of land like for Europeans but with a bigger labour pool and less chance of what actually happens in the new world or survival rates reaching the other side.

It can be possible. In the past, many people didn't travel far from their hometowns or city. They'd prefer to stay in their homes. However, using trickery and psychological manipulation, the European slavers could manipulate several Asians to end up as slaves in the New World. There was also a practice in the 19th century called Blackbirding where several Polynesians were abducted or pressed to work as laborers in sugarcane plantations or guano mines.

In this timeline, the Japanese invasion of Korea is a success instead of a defeat. Toyotomi deports several Joseon PoWs to Japan as a trophy. The surplus of Japanese convicts, the Korean PoWs, the connection to Korea and the Wokou raiding the coasts of North China and Manchuria causes a slave market to form around it. At that time, many Southeast Asian socities still practiced slavery, not at a large scale, allowing European exploitation.

European outposts and colonies takes control of the inhabitants like Malacca, Macao, Taiwan and other places become their dominions. Earlier expeditions into Borneo by the Portuguese and the Malays would cause the discovery of several Bornean tribes which would be later raided for slaves because of the Borneans' non-adherence to Catholicism and Islam. In India, many principalities and chiefdoms sell of either Muslim or Hindu prisoners of war.

To circumnavigate the problem of distance in Pacific transportation, the earlier discovery of Pacific Islands by Iberian captains causes it to become a transfer point and resupply station for freighters heading to the New World.
 
Continuing from WI: Asian Slaves in 16th Century America.

The POD of the ATL is the early Christianization of West Africa and alternate New Laws proposed by Bartolome de Casas which forbids enslavement of African people. Due to the restrictions, several Iberian colonies in the Americas undergoes an economic downturn.

However, a loophole in the alternate New Laws combined with the European expeditions into the East Indies and the establishment of trading posts in Asia causes an opportunity to gain slave labor. The Trans-Pacific Slave Trade is established as people around Asia enslaved by being captured in raids, purchased in auctions or ended up being sold.

The Asian slaves are shipped in slave freighters heading to the Iberian colonies in America, mostly Peru, Mexico, Chile and Brazil. Upon landing, they are sent to work in tasks such as mining, sugarcane farming, fishing and other dangerous tasks assigned for slaves.
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In the colonies, the necessity of easy communication between Iberian masters and Asian slaves of many different ethnicities causes the formation of a creole language known as Basa Prendiz. The language is the result of pidgin forms of Portuguese, Spanish and other plethora of Asian languages mixing together to form a creole.

The major ethnic stock of the Asian slaves in the Iberian colonies of America are:
  • Malays
  • Chinese
  • Thais
  • Koreans
  • Japanese
  • Visayans
  • Iban
  • Batak
  • Negritos
  • Javanese
  • Tagalogs
  • Vietnamese
  • Tamils
  • Konkani
What would the language be like?
Most likely the Visayans are going to be the Slaves..
 
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