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Pichinglis, the Glossary

Pichinglis, commonly referred to by its speakers as Pichi and formally known as Fernando Po Creole English (Fernandino), is an Atlantic English-lexicon creole language spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea.^[1]

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English-based pidgins and creoles of Africa
History of Equatorial Guinea
Languages attested from the 19th century
Languages of Equatorial Guinea
Spanish language in Africa

Angolar Creole

Angolar Creole (n'golá) is a Portuguese-based creole language of São Tomé and Príncipe, spoken in the southernmost towns of São Tomé Island and sparsely along the coast, especially by Angolar people.

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Annobón

Annobón (Ano-Bom) is a province of Equatorial Guinea.

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Annobonese Creole

Annobonese Creole is a Portuguese creole known to its speakers as Fa d'Ambu or Fá d'Ambô (Fala de Ano-Bom). Pichinglis and Annobonese Creole are languages of Equatorial Guinea.

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Bantu languages

The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.

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Bata, Equatorial Guinea

Bata is a port city in the Litoral province of Equatorial Guinea.

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Bioko

Bioko (historically Fernando Po,; Ëtulá a Ëri) is an island of Equatorial Guinea.

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Bube language

Bube, Bohobé or Bube–Benga (Bobe, Bubi) is a Bantu language spoken by the Bubi, a Bantu people native to, and once the primary inhabitants of Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea. Pichinglis and Bube language are languages of Equatorial Guinea.

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Claretians

The Claretians, officially named the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Congregatio Missionariorum Filiorum Immaculati Cordis Beatae Mariae Virginis; abbreviated CMF), is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men headquartered in Rome.

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Code-mixing

Code-mixing is the mixing of two or more languages or language varieties in speech.

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Deontology

In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek: +) is the normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than based on the consequences of the action.

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Economy of Equatorial Guinea

The economy of Equatorial Guinea has traditionally been dependent on commodities such as cocoa and coffee, but is now heavily dependent on petroleum due to the discovery and exploitation of significant oil reserves in the 1980s.

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English-based creole languages

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 of its formation the vocabulary of English served as the basis for the majority of the creole's lexicon.

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Equatoguinean Spanish

Equatoguinean Spanish (Español ecuatoguineano) is the variety of Spanish spoken in Equatorial Guinea. Pichinglis and Equatoguinean Spanish are languages of Equatorial Guinea and Spanish language in Africa.

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Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea (Guinea Ecuatorial; Guinée équatoriale; Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (República de Guinea Ecuatorial, République de Guinée équatoriale, República da Guiné Equatorial), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa, with an area of.

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Fang language

Fang is a Central African language spoken by around 1 million people, most of them in Equatorial Guinea, and northern Gabon, where it is the dominant Bantu language; Fang is also spoken in southern Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, and small fractions of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. Pichinglis and Fang language are languages of Equatorial Guinea.

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Fernandino people

The Fernandino people are creoles, multi-ethnic or multi-racial populations who developed in Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Guinea).

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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Grammatical aspect

In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time.

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Grammatical mood

In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality.

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Inflection

In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness.

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Isolating language

An isolating language is a type of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever.

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Krio language

The Sierra Leonean Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Pichinglis and Krio language are English-based pidgins and creoles of Africa.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.

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Luba, Equatorial Guinea

Luba (formerly San Carlos) (pop. 7,000) is the second-largest town on Bioko in Equatorial Guinea, a port for the logging industry on the island's west coast beneath volcanic peaks.

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Malabo

Malabo (formerly Santa Isabel) is the capital of Equatorial Guinea and the province of Bioko Norte.

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Morphological derivation

Morphological derivation, in linguistics, is the process of forming a new word from an existing word, often by adding a prefix or suffix, such as For example, unhappy and happiness derive from the root word happy. It is differentiated from inflection, which is the modification of a word to form different grammatical categories without changing its core meaning: determines, determining, and determined are from the root determine.

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Niger–Congo languages

Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Pitch-accent language

A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting pitch (linguistic tone) rather than by loudness or length, as in some other languages like English.

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Príncipe

Príncipe is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea.

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São Tomé Island

São Tomé Island, at, is the largest island of São Tomé and Príncipe and is home in May 2018 to about 193,380 or 96% of the nation's population.

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Second language

A second language (L2) is a language spoken in addition to one's first language (L1).

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.

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Sierra Leone Creole people

The Sierra Leone Creole people (Krio pipul) are an ethnic group of Sierra Leone.

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Spanish Guinea

Spanish Guinea (Guinea Española) was a set of insular and continental territories controlled by Spain from 1778 in the Gulf of Guinea and on the Bight of Bonny, in Central Africa.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Pichinglis and Spanish language are languages of Equatorial Guinea.

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Suppletion

In linguistics and etymology, suppletion is traditionally understood as the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are not cognate.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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West African Pidgin English

West African Pidgin English, also known as Guinea Coast Creole English, is a West African pidgin language lexified by English and local African languages. Pichinglis and West African Pidgin English are English-based pidgins and creoles of Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pichinglis

Also known as Equatorial Guinean Pidgin, Equatorial Guinean Pidgin language, Fernando Po Creole English, Fernando Po Creole English language, Fernando Poo Creole, Fernando Poo Creole English, ISO 639:fpe, Pichi language, Pichingli, Pichinglis language.

Pichinglis, the Glossary

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See also

English-based pidgins and creoles of Africa

History of Equatorial Guinea

Languages attested from the 19th century

Languages of Equatorial Guinea

Spanish language in Africa

References