Editing Pitkern (section)

{{Short description|Language spoken on Pitcairn Islands}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Pitkern
| altname          = Pitkern–Norfolk <br /> Pitcairn–Norfolk
| states           = [[Norfolk Island]], [[Pitcairn Islands]], [[New Zealand]]
| region           = 
| ethnicity        = [[Pitcairn Islanders]]
| speakers         = ca. 400 Pitcairn-Norfolk<!--the 66 in Australia are not L1 speakers per Ethn.-->
| date             = 2008
| ref              = e18
| refname          = Pitcairn-Norfolk
| speakers2        = 36 on Pitcairn (2002)
| familycolor      = Creole
| fam1             = English–Tahitian [[Creole language|creole]]
| fam2             = Pitkern–[[Norfuk language|Norfuk]]
| nation           = {{flag|Pitcairn Islands}}
| dia1             = [[Norfuk language|Norfuk]]
| map2             = Lang Status 80-VU.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Pitcairn is classified as Vulnerable by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
| iso3             = pih
| ietf             = pih-PN
| iso3comment      = Pitcairn-Norfolk
| glotto           = pitc1234
| glottoname       = Pitcairn-Norfolk
| lingua           = 52-ABB-dd
| script = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[Norfolk/Pitcairnese alphabet]])
}}

'''Pitkern''', also known as '''Pitcairn-Norfolk''' or '''Pitcairnese''', is a language spoken on [[Pitcairn Islands|Pitcairn]] and [[Norfolk Island|Norfolk]] islands. It is a mixture of [[English language|English]] and [[Tahitian language|Tahitian]], and has been given many classifications by scholars, including [[Cant (language)|cant]], [[patois]], and [[English-based creole languages|Atlantic]] creole.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Mühlhäusler|first=Peter|date=2011-07-01|title=Some notes on the ontology of Norf'k|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0388000111000386|journal=Language Sciences|series=Linguistics Out of Bounds: Explorations in Integrational Linguistics in Honour of Roy Harris on his 80th Birthday|language=en|volume=33|issue=4|pages=673–679|doi=10.1016/j.langsci.2011.04.022|issn=0388-0001|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Although spoken on [[Pacific Ocean]] islands, it has been described as an Atlantic or semi-Atlantic creole due to the lack of connections with other [[English-based creole]]s of the Pacific.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Pitkern and Norfolk revisited | doi = 10.1017/S0266078403003092 | last = Avram | first = Andrei A. | volume =  19 | date = 2003 | publisher = Cambridge University Press
| journal = English Today
}}</ref> There are fewer than 50 speakers on Pitcairn Island, a number which has been steadily decreasing since 1971.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Avram|first=Andrei A.|date=2003-07-14|title=Pitkern and Norfolk revisited|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0266078403003092/type/journal_article|journal=English Today|language=en|volume=19|issue=3|pages=44–49|doi=10.1017/S0266078403003092|s2cid=144835575|issn=0266-0784|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kallgard |first=Anders |date=1998 |title=A Pitkern Word List |url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/253662/1/PL-A91.107.pdf |journal=Papers in Pidgin and Creole Linguistics |volume=5}}</ref>