Pichi

E295926

Pichi is an English-based creole language spoken primarily on the island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Pichi canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Atlantic English-lexifier creole ⓘ
English-based creole ⓘ
creole language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Cameroonian Pidgin English ⓘ
Nigerian Pidgin ⓘ
coexistsWith Annobonese Creole ⓘ
Bubi ⓘ
Fang ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ
continent Africa ⓘ
country Equatorial Guinea ⓘ
developedFrom West African Pidgin English ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Bioko Pidgin English ⓘ
Equatoguinean Pidgin English ⓘ
Fernando Po Creole English ⓘ
linked to: Fernando Po Krio

Fernando Po Pidgin ⓘ
Guinean Pidgin English ⓘ
Pichinglis ⓘ
hasLinguisticDescription grammars and dictionaries by field linguists ⓘ
hasMorphosyntacticFeature preverbal tense-mood-aspect markers ⓘ
pronoun system similar to other West African English creoles ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone ⓘ
reduced consonant clusters ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunity Bioko Island population ⓘ
historicalOrigin contact between English and West African languages ⓘ
influencedBy Bantu languages ⓘ
Kwa languages ⓘ
Niger-Congo languages ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ
languageCodeISO6393 fpe ⓘ
languageFamily English-based creole languages ⓘ
lexicalSimilarityWith Nigerian Pidgin ⓘ
officialStatus not an official language of Equatorial Guinea ⓘ
primaryLexifierLanguage English ⓘ
region Bioko ⓘ
linked to: Bioko Island
spokenIn Bioko Island ⓘ
Malabo ⓘ
status vibrant community language in Malabo ⓘ
typologicalFeature SVO word order ⓘ
little or no inflectional morphology ⓘ
serial verb constructions ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ
usedAs lingua franca ⓘ
usedIn interethnic communication ⓘ
music and popular culture in Equatorial Guinea ⓘ
urban informal communication ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

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