Pitkern

dialect spoken on Pitcairn Islands
Intangible creole Q36554
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Pitkern

Summary

Pitkern is a creole[1]. Pitkern draws 1,000 Wikipedia views per month (creole category, ranking #7 of 42).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pitkern is in the country of Norfolk Island[3].
  • Pitkern is in the country of Pitcairn Islands[4].
  • Pitkern is in the country of New Zealand[5].
  • Pitkern's instance of is recorded as creole[6].
  • Pitkern's instance of is recorded as natural language[7].
  • Pitkern's instance of is recorded as modern language[8].
  • Pitkern is a type of Eastern Caribbean Creole[9].
  • Pitkern's writing system is recorded as Latin script[10].
  • Pitkern's Wikimedia language code is recorded as pih[11].
  • Pitkern's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pitcairn-Norfolk language[12].
  • Pitkern's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+436'}[13].
  • Pitkern's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+532'}[14].
  • Pitkern's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+100'}[15].
  • Pitkern's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+400'}[16].
  • Pitkern's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'pih', 'text': 'Pitkern'}[17].
  • Pitkern's UNESCO language status is recorded as 3 definitely endangered[18].
  • Pitkern's indigenous to is recorded as Norfolk Island[19].
  • Pitkern's indigenous to is recorded as Pitcairn Islands[20].
  • Pitkern's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/PIH[21].
  • Pitkern's exact match is recorded as https://ewave-atlas.org/languages/65[22].
  • Pitkern's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 6a Vigorous[23].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include creole[6], natural language[7], and modern language[8]. Pitkern is a type of Eastern Caribbean Creole[9].

Why It Matters

Pitkern draws 1,000 Wikipedia views per month (creole category, ranking #7 of 42).[2] Pitkern has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Pitkern is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of
    Country Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Islands, New Zealand
    Iso 639-2 code cpe
    Instance of
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987011016773705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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