![]() Here local children are seen at Buk bilong Pikinini ('Books for Children') in Port Moresby, an independent not-for-profit organisation. In Papua New Guinea, pikinini is the word for 'child'. The same word is used in Antiguan and Barbudan Creole to mean "children", while in the English-based national creole language of Suriname, Sranang Tongo, pequeno has been borrowed as pikin for 'small' and 'child'. In Jamaican Patois, the word has been shortened to the form pickney, which is used to describe a child regardless of racial origin. This term is common in the creole languages of the Caribbean, especially those which are English-based. The term piccanin, derived from the Portuguese pequenino, has along with several variants become widely used in pidgin languages, meaning 'small'. Pickaninny acquired a pejorative connotation by the nineteenth century as a term for black children in the United States and Britain, as well as aboriginal children of the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. It was apparently used in the seventeenth century by slaves in the West Indies to affectionately refer to a child of any race. The origins of the word pickaninny (and its alternative spellings picaninny and piccaninny) are disputed it may derive from the Portuguese term for a small child, pequenino. Origins and usage Postcard depicting eight black children, titled "Eight Little Pickaninnies Kneeling in a row, Puerto Rico", published in 1902 or 1903. It can also refer to a derogatory caricature of a dark-skinned child of African descent. In North America, pickaninny is a racial slur for African American children. ![]() Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickinninie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child, very small, tiny'). Postcard titled "Six Little Pickaninnies" (Detroit Publishing, 1902) For other uses, see Pickaninny (disambiguation). ![]()
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