Fernando Po Creole language
| Fernando Po Creole | ||
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Spoken in |
Equatorial Guinea | |
| speaker | 5,000 | |
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| ISO 639-3 |
fpe |
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The Fernando Po Creole (also Criollo, Äquatorialguineisches Pidgin, Fernandine, Fernando Po Krio or Pidginglis; ISO 639-3 fpe) is a pidgin 5000 speakers in Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko (Fernando Po) in the Gulf of Guinea near the villages of Musola, Las Palmas, Sampaca, Basupu, Fiston and Balveri de Cristo Rey, as well as in the state capital Malabo .
Fernando Po Creole is one of the names by which the Bioko Island Creole (formerly known by its colonial name Fernando Po ), based on an English vocabulary, is known. However, speakers of the language use the designation Pichi or Pichinglis for their language.
Around 70,000 or 17.5% of the population speak it as a commercial language. It belongs to the subgroup of the Atlantic Creole languages and is related to the Krio. The language is a branch of the Krio language of Sierra Leone and was brought to Bioko by Sierra Leone Creoles who immigrated to the island during the colonial era in the 19th century. The language is used as the mother tongue of the ethnic mixed group of the Fernandinci (Fernandinos) as a variant of the English language next to the Bube from the Bubi people .
literature
- Kofi Yakpo: A Grammar of Pichi . Isimu Media, Berlin, Accra, 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-027288-2 . (English; PDF; 5.3 MB)