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In a population of well over five million people, more than half are conversant with Tok Pisin which, together with Hiri Motu and English, is one of the three official languages listed in the Constitution of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea. Tok Pisin is the official linguistic name for the largest lingua franca of Papua New Guinea, a country in which more than 800 local languages are spoken. The site is not complete but we at least wanted to save the tremendous Tok Pisin dictionary that is used daily. Perhaps one million people now use Tok Pisin as a primary language.This domain recently expired and we wanted to support the hard work of. Urban families in particular, and those of police and defence force members, often communicate among themselves in Tok Pisin, either never gaining fluency in a vernacular ("tok ples"), or learning a vernacular as a second (or third) language, after Tok Pisin (and possibly English).

Between one and two million are exposed to it as a first language, in particular the children of parents or grandparents originally speaking different vernaculars (for example, a mother from Madang and a father from Rabaul). In parts of Western, Gulf, Central, Oro Province and Milne Bay Provinces, however, the use of Tok Pisin has a shorter history, and is less universal, especially among older people.īetween five and six million people use Tok Pisin to some degree, although by no means do all of these speak it well. It is an official language of Papua New Guinea and the most widely used language in that country. Tok Pisin is a creole spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea: 1981-2001 Currently Inactive Lesson topics include descriptive sentences, informationquestions, pronouns, commands and requests, use of intransitive verbs, use of transitive verbs, reflexive sentence structures, equative or classification sentences, possessive, locatives, negation, linking simple sentences, forming more complex sentences, combining sentence by embedding, and including quotations. Each lesson includes a pre - test, a new text, notes on sentence patterns and grammatical features, reading comprehension exercises, vocabulary exercises using a variety of techniques, listening comprehension practice, questions and answer exercises, summary recall, and a post - test.

The approach used assumes that a native speaker is available to assist the learner. It addresses sentence structure that are common to most languages, and uses listening, speaking, translation, and other grammar drills and exercises to reinforce learning. The workbook is designed for teaching Melanesian Pidgin English (tokpisin) sentence structure to Peace Corps volunteers.