SIL Electronic Working Papers
SILEWP 2006-004
- Author:
Karl J. Franklin, Steven Kambi Thomas
Title: Some Tok Pisin Idioms
Language: Tok Pisin
Country: Papua New Guinea
Abstract:
Paper: PDF (190Kb, 14 pages)Tok Pisin (TP) is a lingua franca and language of wider communication in Papua New Guinea. In this article we introduce and examine a number of TP idioms that use body parts, numbers, descriptors, verb phrases, compounds and other elements. Our presentation is intended to supplement resources on TP that have previously described a similar category (idioms) using a variety of strategies.
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