- Tok
Pisin (English: /tɒk
ˈpɪsɪn/, /tɔːk, -zɪn/; Tok
Pisin [tok
pisin]),
often referred to by
English speakers as New
Guinea Pidgin or
simply Pidgin, is...
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adapted into
creoles such as Tok
Pisin,
Torres Strait Creole and Unserdeutsch.
Languages with
statutory recognition are Tok
Pisin, English, Hiri Motu, and Papua...
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where they are spoken. For example, the name of the
creole language Tok
Pisin derives from the
English words talk pidgin. Its
speakers usually refer to...
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Pidgin Papua New
Guinea Pidgin Papuan Pidgin English (distinct from Tok
Pisin) Port
Jackson Pidgin English (ancestral to
Australian Kriol) Queensland...
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Bougainville Island (Tok
Pisin: Bogenvil) is the main
island of the
Autonomous Region of Bougainville,
which is part of
Papua New Guinea. Its land area...
- of Australia).
Officially the
Independent State of
Papua New
Guinea (Tok
Pisin:
Independen Stet
bilong Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu:
Independen Stet bilong...
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Guinea as a
lingua franca. The
substrate language is ****umed to be Tok
Pisin,
while the
majority of the
lexicon is from German.
German was the language...
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Pisin,
although even
Tolai suffers from a
surfeit of
loanwords from Tok
Pisin; e.g. the
original kubar has been
completely usurped by the Tok
Pisin braun...
- Tok
Pisin "kanu i bagarap",
Brokan "kenu i bagarap", "the
canoe is broken" or Tok
Pisin/Brokan "kaikai i bagarap", "the food is spoiled". Tok
Pisin "mi...
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Papuan languages.
There are
several creoles of the region, such as Tok
Pisin, Hiri Motu,
Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and
Papuan Malay. The original...
