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Tok Pisin

English creole spoken in Papua New Guinea
Intangible natural_language Q34159
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Summary

Tok Pisin is a natural language[1]. It draws 3,868 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #82 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Papua New Guinea[3]
  • Instance of: creole[4], modern language[5]
  • Subclass of: English-based creole languages[6]
  • Writing system: Latin script[7], Latin alphabet[8], Tok Pisin alphabet[9]
  • Wikimedia language code: tpi[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Tok Pisin[11]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 122,000[12], 4,000,000[13]
  • Native label: Tok pisin[14]
  • Indigenous to: Papua New Guinea[15]
  • Female form of label: la langue tok pisin[16]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TPI[17], https://ewave-atlas.org/languages/70[18], https://apics-online.info/contributions/22[19], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133126005[20]
  • Ethnologue language status: 1 National[21]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[22]

Why It Matters

Tok Pisin has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Papua New Guinea The Thin Red Line Uzbekistan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. 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. 14d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'am', 'anp', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'ba', 'bcl', 'bg', 'bi', 'br', 'c
    Umls cui → CL555208
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Umls cui: CL555208"
  2. 12w ago · Wd-Ryan · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Writing system → Latin script, Latin alphabet, Tok Pisin alphabet
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Writing system: Tok Pisin alphabet"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Papua New Guinea
    Coordinates → —
    Instance of → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007538918005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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