Tok Pisin
See also: tok pisin
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔk pɪzɪn/
Noun
Tok Pisin (uncountable)
- A creole of Indo-European, Malayo-Polynesian and Trans-New-Guinean languages (principally English and Kuanua); one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea.
Synonyms
- Melanesian Pidgin English
- Neomelanesian/Neo-Melanesian
Related terms
Translations
language
See also
- Bislama
- Kriol
- Pijin
- Yumpla Tok
- Wiktionary's coverage of Tok Pisin terms
Tok Pisin
Proper noun
- Tok Pisin
- 1992, collected by Mühlhaüsler et al. quoted in Language, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (Suzanne Romaine, Oxford: 1992)
- Na mipela i no save long Tok Pisin tu. Brata bilong mipela ol i go long stesin, orait ol i kisim save long stesin. Ol i kam bek orait ol i tok pisin.
- And we didn't know Tok Pisin either. Our brothers went to the station, and then learned new things in the station. Then they returned speaking in creole.
- 1992, collected by Mühlhaüsler et al. quoted in Language, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (Suzanne Romaine, Oxford: 1992)
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