• 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; these...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • PIS (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    information system at a railway station 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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  • is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes referred to as Pijin, Brokun 'Ullu' or "Vernacular"...
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    Peace pole (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
    monument that displays the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in the language of the country where it has been placed, and usually 3 to 13 additional...
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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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    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 original inhabitants of the group of islands...
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    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 Manasseh Sogavare since 24 April 2019...
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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 Sranan Tongo...
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    Malaita Province (category Articles containing Pijin-language text)
    Malaita Province Malaita Provins (Pijin) Province 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Creole language) (in Papua New Guinea) Fijian Creole (in Fiji) Pijin (now also a Creole language) (in Solomon Islands) Bislama (in Vanuatu) Pacific Melanesia...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Nativization (category Language acquisition)
    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • the use of this language has spread across much of Choiseul Island and it is generally understood, much like Solomon Islands Pijin, across the province...
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