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