Tok Pisin is growing. As Tok Pisin speakers interact with English, new words are borrowed and used to express Papua New Guinea's current...

These maps can be downloaded here https://pnglanguages.sil.org/resources/language_maps Click on each map to see the names of languages in...

Is 'paining' an English word? Nope. Not in British, North American or Australian English. Have you ever heard it used before? Maybe. What...

From a land of a thousand tribes, 800 languages, thousands of dialects and communication quirks, what did I expect? At least every other...

Two other stylistic features of Tok Pisin are used here in this poem. At the word level we can observe 'added vowels' while at the...

'Noks bisi' is not an isolated case on its own, It is a part of a stylistic category I'd like to call single syllable sibilants. Below is...

Can you name the stylistic features used in this poem?

Mama Inglis has the most mysterious fruits in her country. Their names are fancy with consonant clusters and they are known to sing,...

Moderna Tok Pisina is studying in a country with four seasons. Can she write about it in a letter to her momma in the village? "Nau mi...

Did you not recite the pledge like a prayer every other day in the morning sun? Did you put your hands out just because the teacher said...

Ever been unsure about these language facts? Here are the answers in a nutshell. How many languages are there in Papua New Guinea? 852....

This part of speech has been studied by Mihalic and Vehaar and known to be a predicate marker. Austronesian languages like Koro language...

Oi Namo? How are you?... one person Umui Namo? How are you?.. more than one person Daba Namona. Good morning. Dina Namona. Good day....

Floor spelt as 'plua' feels a bit outdated. I laughed at it myself because I would prefer 'flo'. Wall spelt as 'wol' and is fine except...

In the context of Training and Development, words such as knowledge, skills and attitude are a common place. Have you come across these...

There are two main reasons for using the two forms, 1) Author's style or preference Note the two examples below In the above image the...

I recently edited a Tok Pisin translation of these terms. Why weren't they accepted? They are obviously the transliterations of the...

Let me share some unwritten versions of Tok Pisin, they may not gladly ooze out of a writers pen but they certainly breathe life into Tok...

If you do not have an alphabet for your language, I will share a method you can use in my second post. These teaching tips are based on...

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