Pichi

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Pichi is an English-based creole language spoken primarily on the island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Pichi canonical 3

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Atlantic English-lexifier creole
English-based creole
creole language
closelyRelatedTo Cameroonian Pidgin English
Nigerian Pidgin
coexistsWith Annobonese Creole
Bubi
Fang
Spanish
continent Africa
country Equatorial Guinea
developedFrom West African Pidgin English
hasAlternativeName Equatoguinean Pidgin English
surface form: Bioko Pidgin English

Equatoguinean Pidgin English
Fernando Po Krio
surface form: Fernando Po Creole English

Equatoguinean Pidgin English
surface form: Fernando Po Pidgin

Equatoguinean Pidgin English
surface form: Guinean Pidgin English

Pichinglis
hasLinguisticDescription grammars and dictionaries by field linguists
hasMorphosyntacticFeature preverbal tense-mood-aspect markers
pronoun system similar to other West African English creoles
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
reduced consonant clusters
hasSpeakerCommunity Bioko Island population
historicalOrigin contact between English and West African languages
influencedBy Bantu languages
Kwa languages
Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger-Congo languages

Spanish
languageCodeISO6393 fpe
languageFamily English-based creole languages
lexicalSimilarityWith Nigerian Pidgin
officialStatus not an official language of Equatorial Guinea
primaryLexifierLanguage English
region Bioko Island
surface form: Bioko
spokenIn Bioko Island
Malabo
status vibrant community language in Malabo
typologicalFeature SVO word order
little or no inflectional morphology
serial verb constructions
tonal language
usedAs lingua franca
usedIn interethnic communication
music and popular culture in Equatorial Guinea
urban informal communication
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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