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.

APiCS gathers comparable synchronic data on the grammatical and lexical structures of a large number of pidgin and creole languages. It will appear in four volumes (with Oxford University Press) and as an electronic database: In the first atlas volume, the data will be presented in the form of maps. The three survey volumes will contain sociohistorical and grammatical surveys of each language. The data will also be made available as an interactive electronic database on the web.

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, and several mixed languages.

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

More information can be found here.

This website also contains information for contributors.

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