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Hiri Motu

Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea
Class type of: Motu Q33617

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[4]
Country
Papua New Guinea[3]
Subclass of
Motu
Has use
lingua franca[7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -9.000°, 147.000°
Ethnologue language status
3 Wider Communication[17]
Indigenous to
Central Province, Gulf Province, Milne Bay Province, Oro Province, Western Province[12][13][14][15][16]
Native label
Hiri Motu[11]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+180000, +120000[8][9]
Replaces
Papuan Pidgin English[10]
Writing system
Latin script, Latin alphabet[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Police Motu en Hiri Motu en Hiri en ho en Pidgin Motu ar هيري موتو es Pidgin motuano fa زبان هیری موتو fi hirimotu fi hiri motu fi hiri-motu fr hiri motou fr hiri motu fr ho fr Police Motu he הארי מוטו he הירי מוטו hi हिरी मोतू hi हो hu Hiri Motu
🔖 Identifiers · 27
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85061012
GND ID
4459015-5
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300391423
EU Knowledge Graph item ID
Edremit
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Hiri-Motu
Ethnologue.com language code
hmo
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/04x6dm
GOST 7.75–97 code
хмо 772
Glottolog code
hiri1237
IAB code
1089
IETF language tag
ho
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ISO 639-1 code
ho
ISO 639-2 code
hmo
ISO 639-3 code
hmo
ISOCAT ID
710
KBpedia ID
PoliceMotuLanguage
LC and MARC vocabularies ID
languages/hmo, iso639-1/ho, iso639-2/hmo
Lingua Libre ID
Battle of Marignano
Linguasphere code
34-GBC-b
Linguist List code
hmo
NE.se ID
hiri-motu
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007560558305171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
721460
POSIX locale identifier
ho
Topic's main category
Category:Hiri Motu
Yale LUX ID
concept/8c2d3563-e86e-479c-a833-d22fefee5986

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🔗 Connections
← Language used 6
Papua New Guinea, Central Province, Oro Province, Gulf Province, Milne Bay Province, Western Province
Indigenous to 5
Central Province, Oro Province, Gulf Province, Milne Bay Province, Western Province
Instance of 2
language, modern language
← Language of work or name 2
Hiri Motu Wikipedia, jw.org
← Official language 2
Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby
Country 1
Papua New Guinea
Has use 1
lingua franca
Lingua Libre ID 1
Battle of Marignano
Subclass of 1
Motu
Topic's main category 1
Category:Hiri Motu
Writing system 1
Latin script
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Articles containing Hiri Motu-language text
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Hiri Motu
← Languages spoken, written or signed 1
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Summary

Hiri Motu is a language[1]. It is a type of Motu[2].

Related Entities

Papua New Guinea

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 23d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    ISOCAT ID → 710
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'anp', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'bcl', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'cs', 'c
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ ISOCAT ID: 710, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7326645|Hiri Motu (#7326645)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Papua New Guinea
    Coordinates → —
    Instance of → —
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007560558305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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