Tok Pisin

Tok Pisin, an English-based Creole, is natively spoken by around 130,000 people and millions more as a second language in Papua New Guinea, where it serves as one of the official languages. Using the Latin alphabet, it is an analytic language with subject-verb-object (SVO) word order. Tok Pisin is an accessible lingua franca, uniting Papua New Guinea’s diverse linguistic communities and serving as a medium for education, media, and daily communication.