Tok Pisin

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Tok Pisin Tok Pisin, from English talk + pidgin or business. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɒk ˈpɪsɪn/ === Proper noun === Tok Pisin One of the official languages of Papua New Guinea. === Noun === Tok Pisin (uncountable) A creole of Indo-European, Malayo-Polynesian and Trans-New Guinean languages (principally English and Kuanua). ==== Translations ==== === Synonyms === tpi Melanesian Pidgin English Neomelanesian, Neo-Melanesian === Related terms === pidgin === 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 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) ==== Related terms ==== tok pisin