Tok Pisin

Jeff Siegel

Tok Pisin

Jeff Siegel

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Tok Pisin (or New Guinea Pidgin) is the dialect of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Papua New Guinea. It serves as the main language of wider communication in a country where more than 800 separate indigenous languages are spoken by a population of nearly five million. The two other dialects of Melanesian Pidgin are Pijin, spoken in the Solomon Islands (with more than 80 indigenous languages and a population of around 480,000), and Bislama, spoken in Vanuatu (more than 100 languages, population 192,000). Torres Strait Creole (also known as Broken or Yumiplatok) - spoken by approximately 10,000 people around the northern tip of eastern Australia - is closely related to Melanesian Pidgin but is usually considered to be a separate language.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Editors	Philipp Strazny
Place of Publication	New York, United States of America
Publisher	Fitzroy Dearborn
Pages	1114-1116
Volume	2. M-Z
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	1579583911, 1579584519
Publication status	Published - 2005

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Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
Language in Time and Space (incl Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics

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