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Solomon Pijin Wikipedia

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Requests for new languages (Wikipedia Solomon Pijin)

submitted verification final decision This language has been verified as eligible. The language is eligible for a project, which means that the subdomain can be created once there is an active community and a localized interface, as described in the language proposal policy. You can discuss the creation of this language project on this page. (See an unofficial analysis of this request.)

Proposal summary
Language details: Pijin (Pijin blo'Solomon, pis ISO 639-3) Editing community: Anonymous user:60.242.199.56 (NP) List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. Relevant pages: Development wiki project External links: Solomon Islands Pijin audio recordings, Iumi Lanem Pijin. A Basic Course in Solomon Islands Pidgin,
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Solomon Islands Pijin is the lingua franca of the Solomon Islands, which consists of Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian peoples. The country is the most ethnically diverse in the Pacific with a multitude of tribal languages across its many islands which themselves have contributed to the pijin vocabulary.

Arguments in favour

Pijin is the language of day to day business across the Solomon Islands. Despite the official language of the Solomons being English, Pijin is used exclusively for general trade and business by the average person, with standard English rarely being heard. The language is also used more frequently than English in Courts of Law and is increasingly heard in Parliament despite it not having been formally standardised as yet. Orthography is phonetic and uses the English latin script with umlauts used for tribal words that are being gradually absorbed into pijin. The language is sufficiently distinct from Tok Pisin (PNG) and Bislama (Vanuatu) to warrant its own Wikipedia so as to encourage the online development of this colourful and expressive language which unites the different ethnic groups across the Solomons.

• Support: Native speakers of Solomons Pijin have the competency and willingness to contribute to this project in the long-term. Hence the Solomons Pijin language deserves to be given the opportunity and priviledge to have its own language edition of Wikipedia along with the existing creole languages such as Tok Pisin, Bislama and so on. --Jose77 04:51, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

• Support Chabi 06:46, 4 September 2010 (UTC)