What language do people speak in Papua New Guinea?

Answer 1

Tok Pisin, the most widely used language in Papua New Guinea, was originally a pidgin, but is now a creole language, i.e. a language that is spoken as a native language rather than just in an auxiliary function for contact with other nations, like a pidgin proper would be. There are in fact 50,000 first language speakers and 4,000,000 second language speakers of Tok Pisin.

Papua New Guinea is very probably the country with the largest number of native languages both in relation to area and in relation to population. Around 5,420,000 people live in Papua New Guinea, and between them they have 820 living languages.

Answer 2

In the whole of New Guinea (including the Indonesian part) there are hundreds of languages. None of these is spoken by all the people, so Pidgin English is the "lingua franca" that everybody uses.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The official language is Pidgin -- a simplified form of English. Other languages are Motu and Wedauan. When I was at school we had to learn the hymn "Now thank we all our God" in Wedauan. It went:
"Marina ata God
Tara voeipai epai
Ayayavava
Tara voeipai epai...."

It was one of the hardest learning exercises I've ever had, but it had the visiting bishop in tears!