![]() ![]() Perhaps one million people now use Tok Pisin as a primary language. 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 ("tok ples"), or learning a vernacular as a second (or third) language, after Tok Pisin (and possibly English). Between one and two million are exposed to it as a first language, in particular the children of parents or grandparents originally speaking different vernaculars (for example, a mother from Madang and a father from Rabaul). ![]() 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.Ä«etween five and six million people use Tok Pisin to some degree, although by no means do all of these speak it well. ![]() It is an official language of Papua New Guinea and the most widely used language in that country. 4.2.3.4 Other learning experiences and identity-shaping in relation to language Language choice. Tok Pisin is a creole spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. ![]()
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