• 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...
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    Wikipedia is a free multilingual open-source wiki-based online encyclopedia edited and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January...
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    Simple English Wikipedia, the Old English Wikipedia, the Pitkern-Norfuk Wikipedia, the Tok Pisin Wikipedia, the Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, the Sranan Tongo...
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  • 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...
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  • Pidgin (category Wikipedia articles with style issues from 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...
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  • originally known as Police Motu, and today known as Hiri Motu. After Tok Pisin and English, Hiri Motu was at the time of independence the third most...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Kove language (category Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2023)
    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...
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    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...
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  • Hiri Motu (category Wikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2022)
    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...
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  • List of creole languages (category Wikipedia articles needing clarification from July 2022)
    and American English similar to Tok Pisin Pitkern, Norfuk Spoken on the Pitcairn Islands and Norfolk Islands Tok Pisin, an official language of Papua New...
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    New Britain (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text)
    New Britain (Tok Pisin: Niu Briten) is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated...
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  • still visits Papua New Guinea. He raps and sings most of his songs in Tok Pisin. Jason Hershey although born in Spokane, Washington was raised in Papua...
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    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...
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    Radio Australia (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    Australia's public broadcaster. Most programming is in English, with some in Tok Pisin. Radio Australia broadcasts on FM transmitters in seven countries across...
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    in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kastom is a pidgin word (Bislama/Tok Pisin) used to refer to traditional culture, including religion, economics,...
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  • Urapmin people (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text)
    the time when "the law came and got us" (Tok Pisin: lo i kam kisim mipela) or when "we got the law" (Tok Pisin: mipela kisim lo). What was likely the first...
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    Autonomous Region of Bougainville (category Wikipedia external links cleanup from June 2019)
    Bougainville (/ˈboʊɡənvɪl/ BOH-gən-vil; Tok Pisin: Bogenvil), officially the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Tok Pisin: Otonomos Region bilong Bogenvil)...
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    Pickaninny (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text)
    term pikinini is found in Melanesian pidgin and creole languages such as Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea or Bislama of Vanuatu, as the usual word for 'child'...
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    The flag of Papua New Guinea (Tok Pisin: plak bilong Papua Niugini) was adopted on 1 July 1971. In the hoist, it depicts the Southern Cross; in the fly...
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  • the military in 1984, he started a business selling Areca nut (buai in Tok Pisin). In 1986, he joined the National Court in the Sheriff's office, eventually...
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  • consisted of five members, led by Andy Ayamiseba. Their music, sung in Tok Pisin, and originally in Indonesian, included influences from reggae and political...
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  • Papua New Guinea national soccer team (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    New Guinea Football Association. Its nickname is the Kapuls, which is Tok Pisin for Cuscus. Papua New Guinea's highest ever FIFA ranking was 153, in June...
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    New Guinea (category Articles containing Tok Pisin-language text)
    New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island...
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  • Speakers have close to 100% bilingualism with Bariai, and many also speak Tok Pisin. The voiced stops /b d g/ frequently manifest as fricatives [β ɹ ɣ] after...
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    Torres Strait Creole (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    many parts of its former territory, which in turn is being replaced by Tok Pisin. Torres Strait Creole has six main dialects: Papuan, Western-Central,...
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  • early plantation pidgin is the origin not only of Bislama, but also of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea, and Pijin of the Solomon Islands; though not of Torres...
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  • which is on the ocean side of the road that runs between Finchaffen and Sialum. Three languages are spoken in Nunzen: Tok Pisin, Ono and English. v t e...
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