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PRONUNCIATION OF NEW GUINEA PIDGIN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NEW GUINEA PIDGIN

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
New Guinea Pidgin is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NEW GUINEA PIDGIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tok Pisin

Tok Pisin is a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. It is an official language of Papua New Guinea and the most widely used language in that country. 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. While it likely developed as a trade pidgin, Tok Pisin has become a distinct language in its own right. Non-academic Anglophones living in Papua New Guinea tend to refer to it as "Pidgin," "New Guinea Pidgin" or "Pidgin English", but it is common usage among academics, as well as people familiar with Tok Pisin, to refer to the language by its own name. Between five and six million people use Tok Pisin to some degree, although not all speak it well. Many now learn it as a first language, in particular the children of parents or grandparents who originally spoke different vernaculars. 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, or learning a vernacular as a second language, after Tok Pisin.

Definition of New Guinea Pidgin in the English dictionary

The definition of New Guinea Pidgin in the dictionary is the variety of Neo-Melanesian spoken in Papua New Guinea and neighbouring islands.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NEW GUINEA PIDGIN

New English Bible
new face
New Forest
New Forest disease
New Forest fly
New France
New Georgia
New Granada
New Guinea
New Guinea macrophylum
New Hampshire
New Harmony
New Haven
New Hebrides
New Ireland
new issue
New Jersey
New Jerusalem
New Jerusalem Church
New Journalism

WORDS THAT END LIKE NEW GUINEA PIDGIN

agin
algin
begin
Blessed Virgin
certificate of origin
country of origin
Elgin
extra virgin
gin
login
margin
origin
pidgin
profit margin
Pugin
safety margin
smidgin
Solomon Islands Pidgin
the Virgin
virgin

Synonyms and antonyms of New Guinea Pidgin in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «New Guinea Pidgin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NEW GUINEA PIDGIN

Find out the translation of New Guinea Pidgin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of New Guinea Pidgin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «New Guinea Pidgin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

新畿内亚洋泾浜
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Nueva Guinea Pidgin
570 millions of speakers

English

New Guinea Pidgin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

न्यू गिनी पिडगिन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

غينيا الجديدة بجين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Новая Гвинея Pidgin
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Nova Guiné Pidgin
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিউ গিনি পিইগিন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Nouvelle-Guinée Pidgin
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

New Guinea Pidgin
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

New Guinea Pidgin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ニューギニアピジン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뉴기니 피진
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

New Guinea Pidgin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

New Guinea Pidgin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புதிய கினியா பிட்ஜின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

न्यू गिनी पिजिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yeni Gine Pidgin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Nuova Guinea Pidgin
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Nowa Gwinea Pidgin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Нова Гвінея Pidgin
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Noua Guinee Pidgin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Νέα Γουινέα Pidgin
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Nieu-Guinee Pidgin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Nya Guinea Pidgin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

New Guinea Pidgin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of New Guinea Pidgin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NEW GUINEA PIDGIN»

The term «New Guinea Pidgin» is normally little used and occupies the 141.660 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NEW GUINEA PIDGIN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «New Guinea Pidgin» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «New Guinea Pidgin» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about New Guinea Pidgin

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEW GUINEA PIDGIN»

Discover the use of New Guinea Pidgin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to New Guinea Pidgin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pidgin Phrasebook
A guide to the pidgins and creoles of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, north Australia and the Torres Straight.
Ernest Lee, 1999
2
Neo-Melanesian-English Concise Dictionary: New Guinea ...
Spoken primarily in eastern New Guinea and nearby islands, the New Guinea Pidgin language-also called Neo-Melanesian-is one of the most important forms of Pidgin in use today.
‎1998
3
Webster's English to New Guinea Pidgin English Crossword ...
Though highly entertaining, if not addictive, this crossword puzzle book covers some 1200 translations. In this book, hints are in English, answers are in New Guinea Pidgin English.
Group International Icon Group International, 2007
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Webster's New Guinea Pidgin English to English Crossword ...
Though highly entertaining, if not addictive, this crossword puzzle book covers some 2000 translations. In this book, hints are in New Guinea Pidgin English, answers are in English.
Group International Icon Group International, 2007
5
Toward a Reference Grammar of Tok Pisin: An Experiment in ...
A new course in Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin), Pacific Linguistics D-67. Canberra: The Australian National University. Faraclas, Nicholas. 1990. From Old Guinea to Papua New Guinea: A comparative study of Nigerian Pidgin and Tok Pisin.
John W. M. Verhaar, 1995
6
Composition Linguistique Des Nations Du Monde
It is significant in this that the basic structure of Police Motu is very much the same as that of New Guinea Pidgin, and in that respect different from that of Motu even in its pidginised form. The language had, in the years since World War II. been ...
Heinz Kloss, Grant D. McConnell, 1981
7
Language of Inequality
A new sociolect of New Guinea Pidgin, called Urban Pidgin, which already had had a limited existence, became well established and developed. New styles such as written style, radio announcing, etc. emerged in the language. Regional  ...
Nessa Wolfson, Joan Manes, 1985
8
Language Planning and Education in Australasia and the South ...
DUTTON, T. E. (1973), Conversational New Guinea Pidgin. Canberra: ANU, Pacific Linguistics D12. DUTTON, T. & BOURKE, R. M. (1987), Taim in Tok Pisin: An interesting variation in use from the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Richard B. Baldauf, Allan Luke, 1990
9
A Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 1965_1983
"Reduplication and repetition McElhanon 1975: 198—214. in New Guinea Pidgin ", in ———, "Samoan plantation pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea pidgin", Journal of Pacific History 11 (1976); rev. version in Papers in Pidgin and  ...
‎1984
10
A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology and syntax
In: Francis Byrne and John Holm (eds.), Atlantic Meets Pacific: A Global View of Pidginization and Creolization, 341–353. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. Laycock, Donald C. 1970 Materials in New Guinea Pidgin (Coastal and Lowlands).
Edgar Werner Schneider, Bernd Kortmann, 2004

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEW GUINEA PIDGIN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term New Guinea Pidgin is used in the context of the following news items.
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Preview: A Singular Phenomenon at the Malthouse Theatre
... translated into dozens of languages from Dutch to Papua New Guinea pidgin. KRS-One has recorded a version, as has Samuel L. Jackson. «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
2
Peterborough doctor serving as interpreter for rare language at trial …
The official language of Papua New Guinea, the Polynesian country north of Australia. Also known as New Guinea Pidgin and Pidgin English. «Peterborough Examiner, May 14»
3
Change text size for the story
... 44, a London man from the Polynesian country north of Australia who speaks the language, also known as New Guinea Pidgin, fluently. «London Free Press, May 14»
4
Story unheard is story untold
... and in addition to English spoke Slovak, the first language of her immigrant parents, and New Guinea Pidgin, the primary language of Papua ... «Reading Eagle, Mar 12»
5
Texts, e-mails and TV slang transforming English, innit
“There is even Papua New Guinea pidgin English.” Having previously held posts in England and Finland, Gower-born Dr Penhallurick has ... «WalesOnline, Nov 10»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. New Guinea Pidgin [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/new-guinea-pidgin>. May 2024 ».
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