Also known as Pijin language, pis, Solomon Islands Pidgin English, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Solomon Islands Pijin, Solomon Pijin
Pijin (Solomonese Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; the three varieties are sometimes considered to be dialects of a single Melanesian Pidgin language. It is also related to Torres Strait Creole of Torres Strait, though more distantly.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Pijin
- Language.altname
- Solomonese Pidgin
- Language.states
- Solomon Islands
- Language.date
- 1999
- Language.ref
- e18
- Language.speakers2
- 300,000 L2 speakers (1999)
- Language.familycolor
- Creole
- Language.fam1
- English Creole
- Language.fam2
- Pacific
- Language.fam3
- Melanesian Pidgin
- Language.iso3
- pis
- Language.glotto
- piji1239
- Language.glottorefname
- Pijin
- Language.lingua
- 52-ABB-cd
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- English language
- Country
- Solomon Islands
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- Wikimedia language code
- pis
- writing system
- Latin script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 25000
- indigenous to
- Solomon Islands
- exact match
- grambank.clld.org/languages/piji1239
- different from
- pidgin
- topic's main category
- Category:Pijin language
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