Tok Pisin
See also: tok pisin
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Tok Pisin Tok Pisin, from English talk + pidgin or business.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɒk ˈpɪsɪn/
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Noun edit
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.
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- Ethnologue entry for Tok Pisin, tpi
- Tok Pisin phrasebook on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
Tok Pisin edit
Etymology edit
From English talk + pidgin (ultimately from business).
Proper noun edit
- 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.
- 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)