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Pijin language
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<p>Pijin (Solomon Islands Pidgin) is a <a href="/facts/Language/IRcTok2q">language</a> spoken in <a href="/facts/Solomon_Islands/tcyQWq3Q">Solomon Islands</a>. It is closely related to <a href="/facts/Tok_Pisin/o3da6Hwg">Tok Pisin</a> of <a href="/facts/Papua_New_Guinea/RLaVlhFC">Papua New Guinea</a> and <a href="/facts/Bislama/f35Bo53I">Bislama</a> of <a href="/facts/Vanuatu/ta20UNlL">Vanuatu</a>; the three varieties are sometimes considered to be dialects of a single <a href="/facts/Melanesian_Pidgin_(disambiguation)/kgD57sIJ">Melanesian Pidgin</a> language. It is also related to <a href="/facts/Torres_Strait_Creole/W7IJpFqh">Torres Strait Creole</a> of <a href="/facts/Torres_Strait/B0XaXXpg">Torres Strait</a>, though more distantly. </p><p>In 1999 there were 307,000 second- or third-language speakers with a literacy rate in first language of 60%, a literacy rate in second language of 50%. </p>