Tok Pisin (English: /tɒk ˈpɪsɪn/ TOK PISS-in, /tɔːk, -zɪn/ tawk, -zin; Tok Pisin [tok pisin]), often referred to by English speakers as New Guinea Pidgin... 35 KB (3,772 words) - 20:38, 23 April 2024 |
Languages of Papua New Guinea (section Tok Pisin) adapted into creoles such as Tok Pisin, Torres Strait Creole and Unserdeutsch. Languages with statutory recognition are Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu, and... 14 KB (1,143 words) - 18:17, 20 April 2024 |
Papua New Guinea (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text) of Australia). Officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Independen Stet bilong... 146 KB (14,005 words) - 23:14, 26 April 2024 |
places 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... 16 KB (1,770 words) - 00:18, 19 April 2024 |
List of lingua francas (section Tok Pisin) also the mother tongue of many people in Guinea-Bissau.[citation needed] Tok Pisin is widely spoken in Papua New Guinea as a lingua franca. It developed... 75 KB (9,537 words) - 13:54, 2 April 2024 |
LGBT (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text) LGBT is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender". It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic, or... 88 KB (7,646 words) - 14:18, 21 April 2024 |
New Guinea as a lingua franca. The substrate language is assumed to be Tok Pisin, while the majority of the lexicon is from German. German was the language... 26 KB (2,715 words) - 10:07, 6 April 2024 |
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... 22 KB (2,201 words) - 14:33, 11 April 2024 |
in Tok Pisin as Nambawan pikinini bilong Misis Kwin ("The first child of Mrs Queen"). Members of the royal family have often spoken in Tok Pisin while... 64 KB (7,172 words) - 11:11, 23 April 2024 |
Nigerian Pidgin Papua New Guinea Pidgin Papuan Pidgin English (distinct from Tok Pisin) Port Jackson Pidgin English (ancestral to Australian Kriol) Queensland... 2 KB (185 words) - 19:31, 2 April 2024 |
of Papuan languages. There are several creoles of the region, such as Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay. The origin... 27 KB (2,875 words) - 11:59, 22 April 2024 |
Toki Pona (redirect from ISO 639:tok) name of the language has two parts – toki ('language'), derived from Tok Pisin tok, which itself comes from English talk; and pona ('good/simple'), from... 63 KB (6,472 words) - 05:40, 22 April 2024 |
Kove language (section Change from Kove to Tok Pisin) with the language. Instead of using the Kove language, many of them use Tok Pisin as their daily language. Although in the past the Kove people had contact... 10 KB (1,009 words) - 21:44, 13 February 2024 |
Tok or TOK may refer to: Tok Pisin, a creole language from Papua New Guinea Toki Pona (ISO 639-3 code), a constructed language Barış Tok (born 1978), Turkish... 874 bytes (144 words) - 17:58, 7 February 2024 |
Port Moresby (/ˈmɔːrzbi/; Tok Pisin: Pot Mosbi), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea.... 45 KB (3,993 words) - 19:16, 6 April 2024 |
by Tok Pisin. Even in the areas where it was once well established as a lingua franca, the use of Hiri Motu has been declining in favour of Tok Pisin and... 15 KB (1,743 words) - 11:56, 6 January 2024 |
Tolai language (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text) to Tok 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... 9 KB (655 words) - 18:52, 5 March 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,619 words) - 17:41, 31 January 2024 |
Pijin language (redirect from Tok Pijin blong Solomon) Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; these might be considered... 22 KB (2,126 words) - 19:56, 23 April 2024 |
reside in Hela Province of Papua New Guinea. They speak mainly Huli and Tok Pisin; many also speak some of the surrounding languages, and some also speak... 5 KB (540 words) - 21:38, 20 April 2024 |
pronouns – those that do and do not include their audience. For example, Tok Pisin has seven first-person pronouns according to number (singular, dual, trial... 26 KB (3,395 words) - 04:08, 23 January 2024 |
among these are Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu in Papua New Guinea. They are now both considered distinct creole languages. Use of Tok Pisin is growing. It is... 24 KB (2,771 words) - 10:55, 17 April 2024 |
Cassowary (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text) Cassowaries (Tok Pisin: muruk, Indonesian: kasuari) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes. They are classified as ratites:... 54 KB (5,669 words) - 09:47, 21 April 2024 |
Germanism (linguistics) (section Tok Pisin) German Schule, however, is the word shule for school. Even the Kreol Tok Pisin in the former German colony Papua-New Guinea has words borrowed from German... 48 KB (5,775 words) - 05:43, 13 February 2024 |
The Flag of Bougainville (Tok Pisin: plak bilong Bogenvil) is a symbol of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. It was originally... 5 KB (473 words) - 17:18, 9 April 2024 |
Spirit possession (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text) Highlands practice a form of group possession known as the "spirit disco" (Tok Pisin: spirit disko). Men and women gather in church buildings, dancing in circles... 86 KB (10,380 words) - 14:45, 11 April 2024 |