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Pijin language
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| Pijin | ||
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| Spoken in: | Solomon Islands | |
| Total speakers: | 24,390 (1999 SIL, first language), understood by many more | |
| Language family: | Creole language English Creole Pacific Pijin |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | cpe | |
| ISO 639-3: | pis | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Pijin is a language spoken in the Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea; Bislama of Vanuatu; and Torres Strait Creole of the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. Pijin is spoken by about 300,000 persons.
Pijin is written in the Latin alphabet.
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| Tok Pisin · Pijin · Bislama · Torres Strait Creole · Loyalty Islands Pidgin English · New Caledonian Pidgin English† · Micronesian Pidgin English† · Queensland Kanaka English · Maori Pidgin English† · Samoan Plantation Pidgin† |
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