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   What language does Papua New Guinea speak?

   • Tok Pisin is a Creole language that evolved from English. It is one of the four official languages of Papua New Guinea and the most widely spoken language in the country. About five million people in the country can use Tok Pisin to some extent, although not all speak it fluently.

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   How many Papuan languages are there?

   • Because there are many hundreds of Papuan languages, most of them are spoken by relatively few individuals: the number of speakers of individual languages is generally less than 3,000. Although the most commonly spoken Papuan language, Enga, has some 165,000 speakers, many Papuan languages have fewer than 100 speakers and some fewer than 50.

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   Is Papua New Guinea a linguistically diverse country?

   • Papua New Guinea is one of the most linguistically diverse countries on Earth. Papua New Guinea is an Oceanian country, occupying the eastern half of the New Guinea Island. It established its sovereignty in 1975 after 60 years of Australian administration.

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   How many languages are there in New Guinea?

   • New Guinea is perhaps the most linguistically diverse region in the world. Besides the Austronesian languages, there are some 800 languages divided into perhaps sixty small language families, with unclear relationships to each other or to anything else, plus a large number of language isolates.

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   Languages of Papua New Guinea; Official: Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu, Papua New Guinean Sign Language: Indigenous: Papuan languages: Vernacular: Hiri Motu (in the New Guinea Highlands), Tok Pisin (nationwide) Immigrant: Chinese: Foreign: French, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian

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   Aug 30, 2017 · These official languages are English, Tok, sign language, and Hiri Motu. Of the four official languages, Tok Pisin is the most frequently used language for business and government activities. At least two official languages are used in most of the institutions around the country.

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   In most everyday contexts the most widely spoken language is Tok Pisin (“Pidgin Language”; also called Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian), a creole combining grammatical elements of indigenous languages, some German, and, increasingly, English.

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   Article History. Map of the languages found on the Doberai Peninsula of New Guinea. Papuan languages, group of languages spoken in New Guinea and its surrounds.