Tok Pisin

E49351

English-based creole creole language language of Papua New Guinea lingua franca

Tok Pisin is an English-based creole language widely spoken in Papua New Guinea, where it serves as a major lingua franca and one of the country’s primary official languages.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Tok Pisin canonical	68
Bislama	1
New Guinea Pidgin	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	English-based creole ⓘ creole language ⓘ language of Papua New Guinea ⓘ lingua franca ⓘ
alternativeName	Melanesian Pidgin ⓘ Tok Pisin ⓘ surface form: New Guinea Pidgin
closelyRelatedTo	Bislama ⓘ Pijin ⓘ
countryOrRegion	Papua New Guinea ⓘ
developedFrom	English-based pidgins used in the Pacific ⓘ
developedIn	19th century ⓘ plantation and trade contexts in the Pacific ⓘ
glottocode	tokp1240 ⓘ
hasBibleTranslation	yes ⓘ
hasFeature	SVO basic word order ⓘ adjectives often follow nouns ⓘ extensive use of compounding and periphrasis ⓘ inclusive and exclusive first person plural distinction ⓘ many idiomatic calques from English ⓘ many lexical items derived from English ⓘ plural marking with "ol" ⓘ prepositions derived from English words ⓘ productive reduplication ⓘ pronoun system distinct from English ⓘ reduced inflectional morphology ⓘ relatively simple phonology compared to English ⓘ use of preverbal tense-aspect-mood markers ⓘ
hasRole	national lingua franca of Papua New Guinea ⓘ
hasSubstrateInfluenceFrom	Austronesian languages ⓘ Trans–New Guinea languages ⓘ surface form: Papuan languages
ISO639-1Code	tpi ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	tpi ⓘ
languageFamily	English-based creole languages ⓘ
officialStatusIn	Papua New Guinea ⓘ
primaryLexifierLanguage	English ⓘ
spokenAsFirstLanguageBy	growing number of urban Papua New Guineans ⓘ
spokenAsSecondLanguageBy	majority of Papua New Guinea population ⓘ
spokenBy	indigenous populations of Papua New Guinea ⓘ urban populations in Papua New Guinea ⓘ
usedAs	language of wider communication in Papua New Guinea ⓘ
usedFor	interethnic communication in Papua New Guinea ⓘ
usedIn	education in Papua New Guinea ⓘ government in Papua New Guinea ⓘ media in Papua New Guinea ⓘ newspapers in Papua New Guinea ⓘ parliamentary debates in Papua New Guinea ⓘ radio broadcasting in Papua New Guinea ⓘ religious services in Papua New Guinea ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (70)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Oceania → hasOfficialLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Solomon Islands Pijin → closelyRelatedTo → Tok Pisin ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bislama

Papua New Guinea → officialLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Papua New Guinea → nationalLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Tok Pisin → alternativeName → Tok Pisin ⓘ

this entity surface form: New Guinea Pidgin

WPRO → officialLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Pijin → relatedTo → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Neo-Solomonic → closelyRelatedTo → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Hiri Motu → relatedTo → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Papua New Guinean kina → languageOfName → Tok Pisin ⓘ

James Marape → languageSpoken → Tok Pisin ⓘ

National Parliament of Papua New Guinea → languageUsed → Tok Pisin ⓘ

PNG → languageOfCountry → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Port Moresby → commonlySpokenLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Western Pacific Region → hasOfficialLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Rabaul → languageSpoken → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Order of Logohu → hasMottoLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Motu → hasNeighboringLanguages → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Patpatar → hasSuperstrateInfluence → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Patpatar → hasLexicalBorrowingFrom → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Oceanic languages → hasMember → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Bislama → closelyRelatedTo → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Tolai language → hasNeighbouringLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Motu language → hasLexicalInfluenceFrom → Tok Pisin ⓘ

German New Guinea → language → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Buin people → modernLanguageUse → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Manus languages → coexistWith → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Kuanua → hasLexicalInfluenceFrom → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Autonomous Region of Bougainville → hasOfficialLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Territory of New Guinea → language → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Lakalai language → usedAlongside → Tok Pisin ⓘ

flag of Papua New Guinea → officialLanguageContext → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages → includesLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Melanesian Pidgin → hasVariant → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Melanesian Pidgin → relatedTo → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Papua New Guinea Rugby Football Union → languageUsed → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Nakanai → hasContactWith → Tok Pisin ⓘ

New Ireland Province → officialLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Manus people → countryOfficialLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Lou Island → hasOfficialLanguageOfCountry → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Lorengau → languageUsed → Tok Pisin ⓘ

West New Britain Province → officialLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Manus Province → officialLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Witu Islands → language → Tok Pisin ⓘ

government of Papua New Guinea → recognizesLanguages → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Marape → nativeLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

subject surface form: James Marape

People’s National Congress → languageOfOperation → Tok Pisin ⓘ

National Capital District → officialLanguage → Tok Pisin ⓘ

Parliament → languageUsed → Tok Pisin ⓘ

subject surface form: Parliament of Papua New Guinea