Tok Pisin
Americannoun
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"Tenkiu tru for your leadership and cooperation governments of PNG and Australia," she added, using the phrase from the creole Tok Pisin or Pidgin language used in PNG that means "thank-you very much".
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2023
Speaking in the native Tok Pisin language to several thousand ecstatic Bougainvilleans, many wearing traditional grass skirts, carrying spears and waving the islands' cobalt-blue flag, he emphasized the need for economic development.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2019
Mr Allen says the pair are fluent in the trade language, Tok Pisin, and are studying the Kamea language - an unwritten dialect until 2009, when the couple began to note it down.
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2018
English, which is widely spoken, and a creole English called Tok Pisin, have helped bridge the divide.
From Washington Times • Nov. 16, 2018
Papua New Guinea made its English Creole, Tok Pisin, official, as the island nation of Seychelles did with its French Creole, Seselwa.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2010
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