GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The national or official languages of Papua New Guinea are: Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin and English. Tok Pisin is an English based creole with 50, 000 first language, 2, 000, 000 second language speakers. The native language of some people in mixed urban areas.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is one of the three official languages of Papua New Guinea, along with English and Hiri Motu. Tok Pisin (literally, “bird talk”) is one of the Pacific pidgins that emerged during the second half of the 19th century on copra and sugarcane plantations to which labour was imported from Melanesia, Malaysia, and China.

Detailed explanation-3: -Today Tok Pisin is the lingua franca of the entire country of Papua New Guinea, known by an estimated three quarters of the country’s four million inhabitants. It is, in fact, the most widely used language of urban areas.

Detailed explanation-4: -The labourers began to develop a pidgin, drawing vocabulary primarily from English, but also from German, Malay, Portuguese and their own Austronesian languages (perhaps especially Kuanua, that of the Tolai people of East New Britain).

Detailed explanation-5: -After independence, Papua New Guinea adopted three official languages. English is the first. Tok Pisin, a creole, is the second; Hiri Motu, a simplified version of Motu, an Austronesian language, is the third. (Sign language was added in 2015.)