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A Tok Pisin speaker, recorded in Taiwan. Tok Pisin (English: / t ɒ k ˈ p ɪ s ɪ n / TOK PISS-in, [3] [4] / t ɔː k,-z ɪ n / tawk, -zin; [5] Tok Pisin: [tok pisin] [1]), often referred to by English speakers as New Guinea Pidgin or simply Pidgin, is an English creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea.
Tok Pisin lacks certain tense and plural markers (like 'ing' and 's') that English employs. Whereas English has ninety single-word prepositions, Tok Pisin has only two. On the other hand, Tok Pisin abounds in its own complexities of grammar, such as predicate marker "i" and four separate second-person pronouns (single 'yu', dual 'yutupela ...
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The number of loanwords is increasing due to increasing interaction with the outside world and easier transportation. Since Tok Pisin is used as a lingua franca, many new concepts for the Kove people take their names from the language. For example, the words for 'car', 'airplane', 'paper', 'money', and many more are from Tok Pisin. [6]
I've done some test pages for bilinguality, and for figuring out what's missing from the TPI Wikipedia's template list, etc. I had originally thought that a translated sub-page for each Tok Pisin article would be a way to go, but it has been pointed out to me by a Wikipedia Administrator (?), Sean Whitton, that subpages are permitted everywhere in Wikipedia except in the main namespace.
George Telek Mamua MBE, commonly known simply as Telek, is a musician and singer from Papua New Guinea.He has won one ARIA Award for this 1997 self-titled album. Telek sings in his native language, Kuanua, and in Tok Pisin.
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I looked a little further and found the following observations about accent in John W. M. Verhaar's "Toward a Reference Grammar of Tok Pisin: An Experiment in Corpus Linguistics" (1995): "Tok Pisin compounds have the accent on the NI component" as a general rule, but may have "even stress" (page 296); Verhaar categorizes "tok pisin" as a ...