Pijin language

Pijin
Native toSolomon Islands
Native speakers
(24,000 cited 1999)[1]
300,000 L2 speakers (1999)
Official status
Official language in
 Solomon Islands
Language codes
ISO 639-3pis
Glottologpiji1239
Linguasphere52-ABB-cd

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 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%, a literacy rate in second language of 50%.[2]

  1. ^ Pijin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Gordon, Raymond G. Jr, ed. (2005). "Pijin, a Language of Solomon Islands". Ethnologue. Retrieved 12 October 2008.