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Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary

Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary

Hardback (27 Mar 2008) | English,Tok Pisin

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Publisher's Synopsis

Tok Pisin is the official name for the largest lingua franca of Papua New Guinea, a country with more than 800 spoken languages. In a population of more than 5 million, over half are conversant with Tok Pisin. The language has been developed naturally over the last 150 years by the people themselves, as the means of communicating among different language groups. This bilingual dictionary of Tok Pisin and English will be of benefit to people who speak Tok Pisin and want to improve their English, as well as English speakers who are interested in Tok Pisin and want to learn to speak and write it well.

About the Publisher

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Our products cover an extremely broad academic and educational spectrum, and we aim to make our content available to our users in whichever format suits them best.We publish for all audiences-from pre-school to secondary level schoolchildren; students to academics; general readers to researchers; individuals to institutions. Our range includes dictionaries, English language teaching materials, children's books, journals, scholarly monographs, printed music, higher education textbooks, and schoolbooks.

Book information

ISBN: 9780195551129
Publisher: OUP Australia & New Zealand
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 427.9953
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English,Tok Pisin
Number of pages: 347
Weight: 230g
Height: 158mm
Width: 112mm
Spine width: 16mm