Tok Pisin

Borrowed from Tok Pisin Tok Pisin, from English talk + pidgin or business.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɒk ˈpɪsɪn/

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Tok Pisin (uncountable)

1. 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.

• Melanesian Pidgin English
• Neomelanesian, Neo-Melanesian

• pidgin

• Bislama
• Kriol
• Pijin
• Yumpla Tok
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tok Pisin terms

• Ethnologue entry for Tok Pisin, tpi ⁠
• Tok Pisin phrasebook on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage

From English talk + pidgin (ultimately from business).

Tok Pisin

1. Tok Pisin
   • 1992, collected by Mühlhäusler 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.

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