atlas of pidgin and creole language structures

The main purpose of the website and atlas is to allow people to look at different Pidgin and Creole languages and look at ways in which they are similar and ways in which they are different from each other. The APiCS website, APiCS Online, gathers information from all sorts of Pidgin and Creole languages, spoken in places such as in Africa, the Caribbean and more.

The formation of the project was discussed in detail at a series of workshops in Leipzig and at other Creolist conferences elsewhere.The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Languages Structures (APiCS) is a resource for linguists who are interested in different Pidgin and Creole languages spoken all over the world. The data for the project were gathered by means of a detailed, technically sophisticated questionnaire.

It included a volume of survey chapters giving a concise outline of the structures and socio-historical profiles of these languages. The presentation, which was given on Thursday at the National Library and led by two of the project editors – Susanne Michaelis and Martin Haspelmath – was attended by Minister for Social Development and Culture Bernard Shamlaye, principal secretaries for education and culture Merida Delcy and Raymonde Onezime, and education and culture staff. It targets a systematic comparison of language structures by gathering information on 75 pidgin and Creole languages – including Seychelles Creole – using 120 grammatical features, including phonological segments. The project – Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures ¬¬– is being carried out by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, based in Leipzig, Germany. Archive - Archive 2004 - July 2013 Local experts learn about Creole research |05 July 2010

Atlas of pidgin and creole language structures