The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS)

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Welcome to the APiCS website, the website accompanying the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS) project.

The goal of APiCS is to gather comparable synchronic data on the grammatical and lexical structures of a large number of pidgin and creole languages. It will appear in two volumes and as an electronic database: In the first volume, the data will be presented in the form of maps. A second volume, the encyclopedic companion volume, will contain sociohistorical and grammatical surveys of each language.

The project covers 76 pidgin and creole languages. The language set contains not only the most widely studied Atlantic and Indian Ocean creoles, but also less well known pidgins and creoles from Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia, including some extinct varieties.

This internet platform was set up to provide information for both APiCS contributors as well as interested outside observers, and to facilitate discussion about current developments among contributors. (How does it work?) It details individual aspects of the project, but none of the information given here will contradict the guidelines previously distributed. Hence, contributors may safely ignore it if they feel they have enough information.

APiCS is edited by Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber

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This map shows the locations where the pidgins and creole languages covered by the APiCS project are spoken.