Pijin
Pijin is an Indo-European language spoken in Solomon Islands, by about 25 thousand people.
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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.
In 1999 there were 307,000 second- or third-language speakers with a literacy rate in first language of 60% and literacy rate in second language of 50%.
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Written down
Evri man en mere olketa born frii en ikwol lo digniti en raits blo olketa. Olketa evriwan olketa garem maeni fo tingting en olketa sapos fo treatim isada wittim spirit blo bradahood.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Pijin
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| child | pikinini | |
| woman | woman | |
| eye | ae | |
| hand | han | |
| head | hed | |
| water | wata | |
| night | naet | |
| dog | dog | |
| cat | kusi | |
| pig | pikpik | |
| one | wan | |
| two | tu | |
| three | tri | |
| four | foa | |
| five | faef | |
| ten | ten | |
| hundred | handre | |
| I | mi | |
| you | iu | |
| eat | kaekae | |
| die | dae | |
| egg | eg | |
| money | selen | |
| big | bigfala |
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Torres Strait-Lockhart River CreoleIndo-European69% alike
- Ghanaian Pidgin EnglishIndo-European68% alike
- Cameroon PidginIndo-European65% alike
- KrioIndo-European64% alike
- BislamaIndo-European63% alike
- PichiIndo-European62% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
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