Language · Indo-European
Tok Pisin
Official or co-official in 1 country. Listed in 1 country. A creole whose vocabulary comes mainly from English.
Endangerment: not endangered according to Glottolog (AES, CC BY 4.0)
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 7.1 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Latin
Place in the family tree
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- North Sea Germanic
- Anglo-Frisian
- Anglic
- Later Anglic
- Middle-Modern English
- Macro-English
- Pacific Creole English
- Early Melanesian Pidgin
- Tok Pisin
Nodes of the Glottolog tree (Glottolog, CC BY 4.0).
Where it is spoken
- Co-official 1
Co-official
- Papua New Guinea 71% 7.1 million