Indo-European · ISO 639-3 gpe
Ghanaian Pidgin English Language Ghanaian Pidgin
Ghanaian Pidgin English is an Indo-European language spoken by about 5.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Ghanaian Pidgin English is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Ghanaian Pidgin English
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- North Sea Germanic
- Anglo-Frisian
- Anglic
- Later Anglic
- Middle-Modern English
- Macro-English
- Guinea Coast Creole English
- West African Creole English
- Coastal Nigerian Krio
- Nigerian-Ghanaian Krio
- Ghanaian Pidgin English
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Ghanaian Pidgin English language
Ghanaian Pidgin English (Ghanaian Pidgin) is spoken by about 5.0 million people, which makes it the 186th most spoken language in the world — just behind Buginese (5.0 million) and ahead of Koongo (5.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Nigerian-Ghanaian Krio group within the Germanic branch.
Where is Ghanaian Pidgin English spoken?
Ghanaian Pidgin English is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Ghana (5.0 million).
Ghanaian Pidgin English is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Ghanaian Pidgin English is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, Krio, Jamaican Creole English, Trinidadian Creole English, English and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gpe.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.