Pijin (Solomon Islands)

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Pijin (Solomon Islands) is an English-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca across the Solomon Islands, closely related to other Melanesian pidgins such as Bislama.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf English-based creole
Melanesian pidgin
creole language
closelyRelatedTo Bislama NERFINISHED
Tok Pisin NERFINISHED
coexistsWith English in Solomon Islands
indigenous languages of Solomon Islands
developedFrom 19th-century labour trade pidgins
plantation pidgins in the South Pacific
hasAlternativeName Solomon Islands Pidgin NERFINISHED
Solomons Pijin NERFINISHED
hasAncestorLanguage English NERFINISHED
Melanesian pidgins
Solomons local languages
hasDevelopmentStage creolized for some speaker communities
hasDomain informal communication
popular music in Solomon Islands
hasGlottocode solo1261
hasGlottologName Solomon Islands Pidgin NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code pis
hasLanguageFamily English-based creole
hasMajorInfluenceFrom Bislama NERFINISHED
Solomon Islands indigenous languages
Tok Pisin NERFINISHED
hasMorphosyntacticFeature no grammatical gender
plural marking with separate particles
reduced inflectional morphology
use of preverbal tense-aspect-mood markers
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Austronesian languages of Solomon Islands
English NERFINISHED
hasUsageType L1 for some urban speakers
L2 for majority of speakers
isNotOfficialLanguageOf Solomon Islands NERFINISHED
languageOf Solomon Islanders of diverse ethnic groups
lexifierLanguage English NERFINISHED
primaryWordOrder SVO
region Melanesia
spokenIn Solomon Islands NERFINISHED
status widely used second language in Solomon Islands
subclassOf Austronesian contact language
Pacific creole language
usedAs lingua franca in Solomon Islands
usedInDomain education as informal medium
interethnic communication
media in Solomon Islands
politics in Solomon Islands
religion in Solomon Islands
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Bislama closelyRelatedTo Pijin (Solomon Islands)