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Torres Strait Creole

English-based creole language spoken in parts of the Torres Strait Islands and nearby land
Class type of: English-based creole languages Q36648

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[3]
Country
Australia[2]
Subclass of
English-based creole languages[4]
Ethnologue language status
3 Wider Communication[7]
Indigenous to
Queensland[6]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
7800.0[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Torres Strait Creole de Torres Creole de Torres Kreole de Torres-Kreol es Criollo del Estrecho de Torres fi torresinsalmen kreoli fr créole du détroit de Torrès ja トレス海峡諸島クレオール ja トレス海峡クレオール pt Língua crioula do Estreito de Torres ru Креольский язык Торресова пролива tr tcs tr Torres Boğazı Kreolü uk Креольска мова Торресової протоки zh 托雷斯海峡克里奥尔语 zh 托雷斯海峽克里奧爾語
🔖 Identifiers · 14
ABS ASCL 2011 code
8403
AUSTLANG code
P2
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/15107
Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID
3666
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
10289
Ethnologue.com language code
tcs
Exact match
publications.europa.eu, ewave-atlas.org
Freebase ID
/m/02hwkrm
Glottolog code
torr1261
IETF language tag
tcs
ISO 639-3 code
tcs
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
1531187
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Topic's main category
Category:Torres Strait Creole language
WALS lect code
bro

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
language, modern language
← Language used 2
Australia, Queensland
Country 1
Australia
Indigenous to 1
Queensland
Subclass of 1
English-based creole languages
Topic's main category 1
Category:Torres Strait Creole language
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Torres Strait Creole lemmas
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Torres Strait Creole language
← Language of work or name 1
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Torres Strait Creole is a language [1] located in Australia [2].

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  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . abs.gov.au. abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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