Pichi language

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Pichi is an English-based creole language spoken primarily in Equatorial Guinea, where it serves as a major lingua franca and has significantly shaped local varieties of Spanish.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Atlantic English-lexifier creole
English-based creole
creole language
natural language
spoken language
closelyRelatedTo Cameroonian Pidgin English
Krio language
Nigerian Pidgin
coexistsWith Bube language
Fang language
French
surface form: French language

Portuguese language
Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
glottocode fern1236
hasAcademicStudy descriptive grammars and sociolinguistic studies
hasAlternativeName Equatoguinean Pidgin English
Equatoguinean Pidgin English
surface form: Fernando Po Creole English

Fernando Po Krio
Guinean Pidgin English
Pichi
Pichinglis
Equatoguinean Pidgin English
surface form: Pidgin English of Equatorial Guinea
hasDomain informal communication
marketplaces
popular music
urban youth culture
hasFeature reduced inflectional morphology
serial verb constructions
tense–aspect–mood system marked by preverbal particles
tone or pitch accent distinctions in many varieties
historicalDevelopment developed from contact between English, Krio, and African languages on Fernando Po (Bioko)
influences Equatoguinean Spanish
local varieties of Spanish in Equatorial Guinea
ISO639-3Code fpe
languageFamily English creole
lexifierLanguage English language
morphology analytic
notOfficialLanguageOf Equatorial Guinea
originatesFrom 19th-century English-lexifier creoles in the Gulf of Guinea
primaryCountry Equatorial Guinea
region Equatorial Guinea
spokenIn Bata
Bioko Island
Malabo
Rural areas of Equatorial Guinea
status important contact language between ethnic groups in Equatorial Guinea
largely unwritten language
major urban vernacular in Equatorial Guinea
substrateLanguage Bantu languages
Kru languages
typology SVO word order
usedAs lingua franca in Equatorial Guinea
writingSystem Latin script

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Equatoguinean Spanish influencedBy Pichi language