Context: When groups of people who don’t share a spoken language come together, they will often create a new language which combines elements of their first languages. These languages are known as “pidgins”. If they are then learned by children as their first language they become fully-fledged languages known as “creoles”. This dataset contains information on both creoles and pidgins spoken around the world. Content: This dataset includes information on the grammatical and lexical structures of 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. This dataset is made up of several tables, each of which contains different pieces of information: * language: A table of language names & the unique id’s associated with them. * language_data: A table of data on the different languages, including the name speakers’ call their language (Autoglossonym), other names the language is called, how many speakers it has, the language which contributed the most words to the language (Major lexifier), other languages which contribute to that language, where it is spoken, and where it is an official language fro. The column language_id has the id linked to the language table. * language_source: The sources referenced on each language (referencing the language and source tables). * langauge_table: Information on the geographic location of each language. * source: Information on the scholarly sources referenced for information on language. Acknowledgements: This dataset contains information from the online portion of the [Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS)](http://apics-online.info/). It is distributed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) . If you use this dataset in your work, please use this citation: Salikoko S. Mufwene. 2013. Kikongo-Kituba structure dataset. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://apics-online.info/contributions/58, Accessed on 2017-07-28.) Inspiration: * Which areas of the world have the most creoles/pidgins? * Which language has contributed to the most creoles/pidgins? Why might this be? * Can you map the areas of influence of the various lexicalized Major Lexifier languages? You may also be interested in: * [World Language Family Map](https://www.kaggle.com/rtatman/world-language-family-map) * [The Sign Language Analyses (SLAY) Database](https://www.kaggle.com/rtatman/sign-language-analyses) * [World Atlas of Language Structures: Information on the linguistic structures in 2,679 languages](https://www.kaggle.com/rtatman/world-atlas-of-language-structures)