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.
Statements (48)
| 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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