Fishing boats: Fishermen selling their catch at Abandze, Ghana, the site of the first British trading station on the Gold Coast, Fort Kormantin, established in 1632. Photograph by Thorsten Brato, 2008.

The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS) provides expert-based information on 130 grammatical and lexical features of 76 pidgin and creole languages from around the world.

It was edited by Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber, with crucial support from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

The original 2013 version was published as a set of four books by Oxford University Press , containing the Atlas volume proper as well as three Survey volumes, with the following bibliographical information:

Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) 2013. The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 400 pages.

Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) 2013. The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 3 volumes. Volume I: English-based and Dutch-based Languages; Volume II: Portuguese-based, Spanish-based, and French-based Languages. Volume III: Contact Languages Based on Languages From Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The online version contains all the materials from the printed version, plus a large number of examples and feature value comments. In addition, it was specifically designed to allow comparison with data from WALS (the World Atlas of Language Structures).