Gude!
say it: “GOO-deh”
Tok Pisin
in its own words: Tok Pisin
- Speakers
- 4 million (estimate)
- Family
- English-based creole
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Papua New Guinea
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Papua New Guinea
Fun fact
A creole with mostly English vocabulary and an official language of Papua New Guinea. Possession is marked with “bilong”: “gras bilong fes” (beard), literally “grass of the face”.