Tok Pisin English Based Pidgins and Creoles Natural Languages Linguistics

Tok Pisin is the pidgin English of Papua New Guinea. Recently, it has been creolizing due to an increasing number of people using it as a first language. Closely related languages are Bislama from Vanuatu and Pijin from the Solomon Islands. Synonyms for Tok Pisin are: Melanesian Pidgin English, neo-Melanesian, Pidgin English, and Talk Boy.

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• - This message board is primarily conducted in the English dialect spoken in Papua New Guinea, i.e., as influenced by Tok Pisin. Some messages are in Tok Pisin.
  
• - A description of Tok Pisin by Edward Etepa, including lyrics to a song.
  
• - This article by Karl J. Franklin examines a number of issues and practical suggestions which are relevant in compiling dictionaries in the vernacular languages of Papua New Guinea.
  
• - Newspaper article that compares teaching Tok Pisin to teaching dialects in other countries.
  
• - An English to Tok Pisin glossary for the Tok Pisin variant spoken in Port Moresby.
  
• - A bibliography of publications in and about Tok Pisin.
  
• - Brief description of Tok Pisin, including references and resources.
  
• - An open-source phrasebook at Wikitravel.
  
• - A Tok Pisin grammar in English and German.
  
• - Talking about food in Tok Pisin, an article by Peter Mühlhäusler, University of Adelaide, originally published in 1973. This is a short story by Mühlhäusler on his early days in Papua New Guinea.
  
• - An interactive and bidirectional dictionary between Tok Pisin and English.
  
• - This is a collaborative project to revise and update Mihalic's classic book, "The Jacaranda Dictionary and Grammar of Melanesian Pidgin". Full dictionary entries are given for those words that have so far been defined. Links to original dictio
  
• - An annotated bibliography of Melanesian Pidgin English dictionaries, phrase books, and study guides.
  
• - This paper outlines the historical evolution of the recent language policy in Papua New Guinea, and gives an overview of the 1989 education policy regarding initial education in the vernacular, including discussion on planning, implementation and evaluati
  
• - On-line text book on Tok Pisin. Still in early development stage.
  
• - Paper by Valeri Khabirov of the Ural Pedagogical University.
  
  

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