Pijin Pijin Kanaka
Spoken to	Solomon Islands
Number of speakers	24,390 (in 1999 according to the SIL ) and 306,984 in second or third language is more than 330,000 speakers
Classification by family
- Pidgins and Creoles - Creole languages - English-based creole (in) - Pijin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	udder
IETF	udder
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The Pijin (pidgin Solomon Solomon Islanders or New) is the lingua franca in basic lexical English , the Solomon Islands because the country has a four-score of Melanesian languages. It may be called also "Kanaka".

He became a creole (linguistics) as mother tongue for now "pijinophones" of language and remains a pidgin for those who speak it as a second language for non-native language of communication.

This language is close to the Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea , the Bislama of Vanuatu and the Torres Strait Creole (en) (far north Queensland in Australia ) and to some extent the Australian Creole. Pijin written in the Latin alphabet.

In 1999 there were 306,984 speakers Pijin as a second or third language speakers and 24,390 native speakers, with a literacy rate of 60% for Pijin speakers as mother tongue and 50% as a second language.

The language has developed as commercial language throughout the South Pacific Melanesian between whalers and English traders and settlers (including Australia) to the late eighteenth ^century and then through the timber trade of sandalwood in the 1830s and the tail of the sea (which gave its name to Bislama of Vanuatu in the 1850s.

The period from the 1860s which saw the colonization of the Melanesian islands including the Solomon Islands that the British settlers of Australia deported by removal, to cultivate sugar cane in Queensland , with workers in Western Samoa , and Fiji , to New Caledonia. The Solomon Islanders are recruited from the 1870s. Then develops a language between Melanesians and between Melanesians and Europeans: the pidgin. Some 13,000 Solomon Islanders are called. This practice of removing Melanesian called in English " blackbirding ". This period lasts from 1863 to 1906.

Upon their return in the early 1900s, Solomon Islanders in their Pijin bring the archipelago. The Church in its mission campaigns also used the Pijin. The fates of various pidgins (Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon ,...) then split so that each operates on its side in each archipelago. It was here that the Papuans (who speak Meriam Mir and Aborigines and Torres Strait York Peninsula in Australia were able to integrate elements and found their own pidgin language becomes the Torres Strait Creole (in) or "Yumpla Tok." Queensland Aborigines who have sex with those in Arnhem Land (in the Northern Territory have also indirectly helped the pidgin that is spreading and is found in some form in the Australian Creole.

Pronunciation

Presentations

Nem blong me = My name is Charles Charles (literally: The Name That belongs to me IS Charles)

Personal pronouns

Request address

Ples blong iu Wea nao? ': What's your address? (Literally: "Where is the place That belongs to you?"

Questions

(Pointing the finger at an object)

• Datwan Wanem nao?: What is this?
• Haoma nao bae hem me kostem fo sendem wanfala erogram go along Japan: How much does it cost to send this letter to Japan?

Acknowledgements

• Tanggio Tumas fo helpem mi: Thank you very much for helping me
• No wariwari. Hem oraet nomo: No worries, there's nothing.

Audio examples

• Good News - Pijin (Religious Readings)

References

• The Jargon of the Western pacific , Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science, 88: 295, 1911.
• ed Jeff Siegel (2000), Features and transformations of kinship terminology in Solomon Islands Pijin in Processes of Language Contact: Studies from Australia and the South Pacific, Montreal, Fides, 2000, pp. 99-122.
• Roger Keesing (1997), From Pisin to Pijin: creolization in process In The Solomon Islands , 1997, Language in Society 26 (3): 401-420.
• Telban Borut (1996), Legitimacy of Solomon Islands Pijin , 1996 Anthropological Notebooks 2 (1): 43-54.
• Tracey Flanagan, Meredith Wilkie, Susanna Iuliano (2003), A history of South Sea Islanders in Australia , 2003, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
• Maggie Wateha'a, The Begiinners Pijin Handbook, Honiara RAMSI, pp. 3.

• (In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Pijin "(see the list of authors )

See also

Internal Links

• Language
  • language list
    • Languages by family
      • Creole

External Links

• http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/pacifique/salomon.htm
• "Let Pijin: social history and description of pidgin of the Solomon Islands" by Christine Jourdan, Harmattan Editions, March 2007

• Language portal
• Portal Solomon Islands

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