Pijin (or Solomons Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; the...
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Question mark (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages. In the fifth century, Syriac Bible manuscripts used question markers...
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Nigerian Pidgin (redirect from Nigerian Pidgin language)
is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes referred to as Pijin or Vernacular. First used...
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Solomon Islands (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
with local indigenous languages. Pijin is closely related to Tok Pisin spoken in Papua New Guinea. The number of local languages listed for Solomon Islands...
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Exclamation mark (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
"not A". This usage has spread to ordinary language (e.g., "!clue" means no-clue or clueless). Some languages use ǃ, a symbol that looks like an exclamation...
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PIS (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
information system on public transport Phoenix Indian School Pijin language, a language spoken in the Solomon Islands Ping Shan stop in Hong Kong (Station...
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Names for association football (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
name uses sakkā. Irish: sacar Manx Gaelic: soccar or sackyr Māori: hoka Pijin: soka Samoan: soka Swahili: soka Tok Pisin: soka Tongan: soka Torres Strait...
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dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member...
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Melanesians (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
several creoles of the region, such as Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay. The origin of Melanesians is generally associated...
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List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Oceania (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
2022. [we] can further define the word culture to mean language. Thus we have the French language part of Oceania, the Spanish part and the Japanese part...
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Rennell and Bellona Province (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
Bellona, or Mu Ngava and Mu Ngiki respectively in Rennellese (a Polynesian language), as well as the uninhabited Indispensable Reef. Rennell and Bellona are...
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Central Province (Solomon Islands) (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
Central Province Sentrol Provins (Pijin) Province Flag Coordinates: 9°0′S 159°45′E / 9.000°S 159.750°E / -9.000; 159.750 Country Solomon Islands Capital...
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An English-based creole language (often shortened to English creole) is a creole language for which English was the lexifier, meaning that at the time...
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Culture of the Solomon Islands (section Languages)
Pacific Islands Studies "Gaden", not "Garden". The word belongs to the Pijin language, not English. "Don’t rely on import food: Kastom Gaden", Solomon Star...
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Prime Minister of Solomon Islands (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
Prime Minister of Solomon Islands Praem Minista blo Solomon Aelan (Pijin) Coat of Arms of Solomon Islands Incumbent Jeremiah Manele since 2 May 2024 Residence...
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Pidgin (redirect from Pidgin language)
Delaware Pidgin Hawaiian Pidgin Iha Pidgin Ngarluma Pidgin Onin Pidgin Wolof Pijin (creolized) Roquetas Pidgin Spanish Russenorsk Settler Swahili Surzhyk Sranan...
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is Pijin, and the official language in both countries is English. Most of the languages in the Solomon Islands archipelago are Austronesian languages. The...
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Malay or the colonial languages with indigenous languages, such as Tok Pisin, Bislama, Pijin, various Malay trade and creole languages, Samoan Plantation...
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Malaita Province (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
Malaita Province Malaita Provins (Pijin) Province Flag Coordinates: 9°0′S 161°0′E / 9.000°S 161.000°E / -9.000; 161.000 Country Solomon Islands Capital...
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of Melanesia" as a whole. The song was composed in the 1950s, in the Pijin language of Solomon Islands, by Edwin Nanau Sitori, Rone Naqu and Jason Que....
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Isabel Province (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
Isabel Province Isabel Provins (Pijin) Province Flag Coordinates: 8°0′S 159°30′E / 8.000°S 159.500°E / -8.000; 159.500 Country Solomon Islands Capital...
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Guadalcanal Province (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
Guadalcanal Province Guadalkanal Provins (Pijin) Province Flag Coordinates: 9°45′S 160°0′E / 9.750°S 160.000°E / -9.750; 160.000 Country Solomon Islands...
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Tok Pisin (now also a Creole language) (in Papua New Guinea) Fijian Creole (in Fiji) Pijin (now also a Creole language) (in Solomon Islands) Bislama...
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Nativization (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
across as snobbish to a speaker’s speech community. As their mother tongue, Pijin was acquired from the urban adult population by a generation of children...
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Bislama (redirect from Bislama language)
of languages in the region. This early plantation pidgin is the origin not only of Bislama, but also of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea, and Pijin of the...
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Western Province (Solomon Islands) (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
Western Province Wes Provins (Pijin) Province Flag Coordinates: 8°0′S 157°0′E / 8.000°S 157.000°E / -8.000; 157.000 Country Solomon Islands Capital...
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List of English-based pidgins (category Lists of Indo-European languages)
Kriol) Queensland Kanaka English Samoan Plantation Pidgin Solomon Islands Pijin Spanglish/Ingléspañol (including dialects Llanito, Belizean Kitchen Spanish...
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Choiseul Province (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
Choiseul Province Soesol Provins (Pijin) Province Flag Coordinates: 7°0′1″S 156°57′50″E / 7.00028°S 156.96389°E / -7.00028; 156.96389 Country Solomon...
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Pisin, Hiri Motu, Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay. Merritt Ruhlen, 1991, A Guide to the World's Languages, p 165 As for example in The Austronesians:...
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On the Reef islands, Äiwoo is the primary language spoken by all of its people. Most of them also speak Pijin, the lingua franca of the Solomon Islands...
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