Petjo language
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| Petjo | ||
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| Spoken in: | Indonesia | |
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| Language family: | Creole language Dutch Creole Petjo |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
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| ISO 639-3: | pey | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Petjo, also known as Petjoh, Petjok, Pecok, is a Dutch-based creole language that originated among the Indos, people of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry in Indonesia. The language has influences from Dutch, Javanese and Betawi. Its speakers presently live mostly in Indonesia and the Netherlands. The language is expected to become extinct by the end of the 21st century.
Just as the Indo European (Eurasian) community historically originated from relationships between European males and Indonesian females, its language reflects this same origin. Typified as a mixed marriage language, the grammar of Pecok is based on the maternal Malay language and the lexicon on the paternal Dutch language.
The main contact mechanisms responsible for the creation of Petjo are lexical re-orientation; selective replication and convergence. The original speakers of the language do not necessarily want to maintain their first language, but rather create a second one. These creative speakers of the language were probably bilingual, but more fluent in the dominant lingua franca i.e. native Malay language, than Dutch language.
In its overall split between grammar and lexicon the structure of Pecok is very similar to the Media Lengua spoken in Ecuador by the Quechua Indians. With the critical difference that the much older language Pecok, has undergone late system morphemes and syntactic blends.
Petjo should not be confused with Javindo, a different creole language spoken in Indonesia.
[edit] References
- Rickford, J.R. & Mc Worther, J (1997): “Language contact and language generation: Pidgins and Creoles”. In: F. Coulmas (red), The handbook of sociolinguistics. Oxford, Blackwell, p.238-256.
- Riyanto, Sugeng (1996): “Het ontstaan en de structuur van het Petjoek”, In: Darmojuwono, Setiawati; Suratminto, Lilie (red): Duapuluh lima tahun studi Belanda di Indonesia/ Vijfentwintig jaar studie Nederlands in Indonesië. p. 209-218
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