Tok Pisin

See also: tok pisin

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

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.

Synonyms

• Melanesian Pidgin English
• Neomelanesian, Neo-Melanesian

Related terms

• pidgin

Translations

language

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴布亞皮欽語／巴布亚皮钦语 (zh) (Bābùyà Píqīnyǔ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: Tok Pisin (nl) n
• Finnish: tok-pisin (fi)
• German: Neuguinea-Pidgin n
• Greek: τοκ πίσιν (el) (tok písin)
• Mian: Wan Weng
• Russian: ток-писин (ru) m (tok-pisin)
• Slovak: neomelanézština f, tok pisin m, novoguinejský pidžin m
• Swedish: tok pisin (sv)
• Tok Pisin: Tok Pisin

See also

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

Further reading

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

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English talk + pidgin (ultimately from business).

Proper noun

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.

Related terms

• tok
• pisin