![]() Over time is has evolved and become a creole acquiring more complex grammar in the process. ![]() Tok Pisin started out as a Pidgin - a simple contact language used by people who didn't share a common language. ![]() Other names for the language include New Guinea Pidgin, Melanesian Pidgin English or Neo-Melanesian. The word tok means "word" or "speech" as in "talk", and pisin means "pidgin". It is one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea and the most widely used language in that country Tok Pisin is an English-based creole spoken in Papua New Guinea by about 4 million people, 120,000 of whom speak it as their first language.
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