Maps of Babatana

Solomon Islands: Pidgins, Creoles and Lingua Francas


Solomon Islands: Pidgins, Creoles and Lingua Francas


  Data Source: 
 Tryon, Darrell. 2007. Australia:Time of Contact. Atlas of the World's Languages, ed. by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley, 131. Oxford: Routledge.

"Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Composite". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships

Date Digitized:  August 2011

Map Description:
Solomon Islands Pidgin is used throughout the Solomon Islands and is based on an earlier plantation pidgin (a Queensland English pidgin variety). This map also shows the movement of various Lingua Francas on the islands which mostly developed as a result of church missionaries.

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.

Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
This folder (Australia and the Pacific: Pidgins, Creoles and Lingua Francas) contains other maps which show the distribution of varieties spoken in this region. These maps can be observed side-by-side.


Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.

South Pacific: Solomon Islands and Bouganville


South Pacific: Solomon Islands and Bougainville


Data Source:  Tryon, Darrell. 2007. Solomon Islands and Bougainville. Atlas of the World's Languages, ed. by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley, 135. Oxford: Routledge.

"Austronesian: Composite". The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database

Date Digitized:  September 2011

Map Description:
The language families of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville. While Bougainville is an island politically associated with Papua New Guinea, it is located within the Solomon Islands archipelago, and it includes languages of both Papuan and Austronesian language families.

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.

Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
South Pacific: Vanuatu & New Caledonia
South Pacific: The Philippines
South Pacific: Indonesia


Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.