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Language Comparison: Madurese vs Tok Pisin
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Aspect | Madurese | Tok Pisin |
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Family | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | Creole, English-based |
Speakers | Approximately 13.5 million | Approximately 4 million fluent speakers (including second-language speakers) |
Features | A language with distinct phonetic features, such as a reduced vowel inventory and a preference for glottal stops; it exhibits a high degree of mutual unintelligibility with Javanese despite geographic proximity. | A widely spoken creole with simplified grammar and vocabulary influenced by English, local languages, and German; used as a lingua franca in Papua New Guinea |
Countries | Indonesia (primarily on Madura Island and in parts of East Java, including Surabaya and surrounding areas) | Papua New Guinea |
Writing System | Latin script (modern use), previously Javanese and Pegon scripts (Arabic-derived script) | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses prepositions and affixes to mark relationships | No, uses simple subject-verb-object order and particles to indicate tense and aspect |
Derived From | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | English, with influences from German, Malay, and various indigenous languages of Papua New Guinea |
Loanwords | From Javanese, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Dutch | Primarily from English, with some influence from German and indigenous languages |
Dialects | Includes Bangkalan, Sumenep, and Pamekasan dialects, with significant lexical and phonological differences | Relatively homogeneous, with some regional variations influenced by local languages across Papua New Guinea |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, Y, Z | A, B, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y |
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