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Tok Pisin
Native to Papua New Guinea
Native speakers 122,000  (2004)
4 million L2 speakers
Language family
English Creole
  • Pacific
    • Tok Pisin
Official status
Official language in  Papua New Guinea
Linguasphere 52-ABB-cc
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Tok Pisin (pronounced:) is a market language used in parts of the South Pacific, mainly Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, but also in areas of Vanuatu, where a second language known as Bislama is also spoken. A market language is one which is used as an everyday language between people who don't speak a common language.

Tok Pisin is a Creole language, meaning that it's a mixture of other languages, mainly English, German and Tahitian.

Images for kids

  • F. Mihatlic SVD The Jacaranda Dictionary and Grammar of Melanesian Pidgin

    A 1971 reference book on Tok Pisin (referring to the language as Melanesian Pidgin).

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Tok pisin para niños

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