Burundi Pidgin French

Burundi Pidgin French
Native to	Burundi
Native speakers	None
Language family	French pidgin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	buru1323

Burundi Pidgin French is a stably pidginized form of French spoken in the African nation of Burundi. It is one of several such pidgins in francophone countries. Infinitives tend to be used for all verb forms (e.g. vous savoi for vous savez 'you know'). It is unlikely to ever creolize, as the Rundi language is spoken by the entire Burundian population.^[1]

References

1. Henry Niedzielski (1989) 'A French based pidgin in Burundi'. In Pütz & Dirven (eds.), Wheels within wheels: papers of the Duisburg symposium on pidgin and creole languages, 81–107. Frankfurt.