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The ''Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS)'' is a comparative linguistic atlas of contact languages. It exists as a four volume publication and online database in the form of a website(APiCS Online ). The atlas was edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis & Philippe Maurer & Martin Haspelmath & Magnus Huber. The project ran between 2006 and 2013. The project involved 78 linguists contributing with data on languages that they are experts on.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://apics-online.info/contributors )〕 This makes APiCS different from other similar surveys of languages where there is typically one or a team of researchers gathering data on many languages by reading different descriptions. The project also has a wiki page (APiCS wikipage ). APiCS gathers comparable synchronic data on the grammatical and lexical structures of a large number of pidgin and creole languages. The data is presented in the form of maps and profile pages for each language. The profile pages for the languages also includes sociohistorical information about each language. The published physical volumes contains more information of this kind than the online version. ==Languages included== The project covers 76 contact languages (pidgins, creoles and mixed languages). The language set contains not only the most widely studied Atlantic and Indian Ocean creoles, but also less well known pidgins and creoles from Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia, including some extinct varieties. The Atlas does not make any classification into what is and what is not a pidgin/creole/mixed language, it is up to the readers and users of the database to make these classifications. This is a very important point, it is inappropriate to refer to all languages in the APiCS as creoles. Each language is the responsibility of a single author or a team of authors, which were requested to fill out a questionnaire for the 130 structural features and to write a sociohistorical and grammatical survey article for their language. There are also 18525 audio examples online to illustrate the features for each language. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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