Pijin
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Pijin is an English-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca in the Solomon Islands.
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Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-based creole
→
creole language → lingua franca → |
| alternateName |
Pijin English
→
Solomon Islands Pijin → |
| countryOrRegion |
Solomon Islands
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|
| developedFrom |
English-based pidgins used in the South Pacific
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| developedInContext |
plantation labour trade in the Pacific
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| developedInPeriod |
late 19th century
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| hasGlottocode |
piji1239
→
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| hasISOCode |
pis
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| hasMorphosyntacticFeature |
no case inflection on nouns
→
no grammatical gender → |
| hasNumberCategory |
plural
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singular → sometimes dual or trial in pronouns → |
| hasPhonology |
simplified consonant clusters compared to English
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| hasPronounSystem |
distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person plural
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| hasSpeakers |
hundreds of thousands
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| hasStandardizationStatus |
partially standardized orthography
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| hasVocabularyFrom |
English
→
local Austronesian languages → |
| influencedBy |
Melanesian Pidgin continuum
→
Solomon Islands indigenous languages → |
| languageFamily |
English-based creole languages
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| primaryLexifierLanguage |
English
→
|
| region |
Melanesia
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|
| relatedTo |
Bislama
→
Tok Pisin → |
| spokenIn |
Guadalcanal
→
Honiara → Malaita → Western Province (Solomon Islands) → |
| status |
not the official language of the Solomon Islands
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widely spoken → |
| typologicalFeature |
SVO word order
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reduced inflectional morphology compared to English → serial verb constructions → use of preverbal tense-aspect-mood markers → |
| usedAs |
lingua franca in the Solomon Islands
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| usedBy |
people of diverse ethnic groups in the Solomon Islands
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| usedFor |
interethnic communication
→
trade → urban communication → |
| usedInDomain |
informal education
→
media → parliamentary debate (alongside English) → religion → |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
→
|
Referenced by (3)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Pijin
("Pijin English")
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alternateName |
|
Solomon Islands Pijin
→
|
alternativeName |
|
Tok Pisin
→
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closelyRelatedTo |