Petjo

Also known as Petjo language, Peco' Creole, Petjok, Pecok

Petjo, also known as Petjoh, Petjok, Pecok and Petjoek (), is a Dutch-based creole language that originated among the Indos, a people of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry in the former Dutch East Indies. The language has influences from Dutch and, depending on the region, Javanese, Malay, Sundanese and Betawi. Its speakers presently live mostly in Indonesia and the Netherlands. The language is expected to become gradually extinct by the end of the 21st century, due to Indos' shift toward Indonesian in Indonesia and Dutch in the Netherlands.

Key facts

Language.name: Petjo
Language.states: Indonesia, Netherlands
Language.speakers: "some"
Language.date: 2007
Language.ref: e18
Language.familycolor: Creole
Language.fam1: Dutch-based creole
Language.iso3: pey
Language.glotto: petj1238
Language.glottorefname: Petjo

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: modern language
Subclass of: Dutch-based creole languages
Country: Netherlands

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indigenous to: Java
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/PEY

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Background
Phonology
Consonants
Consonant shifts
Consonant blends
Vowels
Language samples
Fragment from ''Petjoh van Batavia''
References
Citations
Bibliography

== Background == Just as the Indo (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 Petjok is based on the maternal Malay language and the lexicon on the paternal Dutch language.

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