BFSU LANGUAGE ENTRY
095 / 101Tok Pisin
Tok PisinAt BFSU, Tok Pisin is among 101 approved foreign languages, connecting the university’s multilingual education with the places and cultures where the language is used.
Papua New Guinea
- NATIVE NAME
- Tok Pisin
- WRITING SYSTEM
- Latin script
- AT BFSU
- One of 101 languages
LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD
See where Tok Pisin connects communities.
LANGUAGE REACH
Tok Pisin is spoken across 1 country and territory.
No. 64 of 101 languages · No. 96 by territory count
Oceania
01Papua New Guinea
From daily conversation in Papua New Guinea to education, literature and media, Tok Pisin carries the accents, vocabulary and expressions of different communities.
Population and distribution figures use Unicode CLDR 48 ↗ estimates of people able to use the language, including first- and second-language users. Recorded reach counts territories with an estimated community of at least 10,000; figures are comparative, not live counts.
AT BFSU
A language opens a wider view of the world.
BFSU places Tok Pisin within a multilingual programme that brings language study together with literature, history, society and regional knowledge.
The language is commonly written in Latin script; its literature, media and everyday expressions carry the experiences of the communities that use it.
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