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➙ Language:
Tok Pisin (tpi)
Alternative Names
Pisin, Pidgin, Neomelanesian, New Guinea Pidgin English, Melanesian English
Family/Group
Creole, English-based
Area
Australia and New Guinea
General Data
spoken in Papua New Guinea
lingua franca
Reduplication Form-Function
full: pluralization, intensification, lexical enrichment
partial: lexical enrichment
Relationship Form-Function
various forms - various functions
Forms
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σ
σσ
CVC
word
Functions
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lexical enrichment
other
pluralization
Patterns
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full
partial
Semantics
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other
plurality
Word Classes
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0 — noun
0 — other
0 — verb
adjective/adverb — adjective/adverb
noun — noun
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Terminology
Glossary
Field Descriptions
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