Tok Pisin

From English talk + pidgin (ultimately from business).

1992, collected by Mühlhäusler et al. quoted in Language, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (Suzanne Romaine, Oxford: 1992)

And we didn't know Tok Pisin either. Our brothers went to the station, and then learned new things in the station. Then they returned speaking in creole.

Na mipela i no save long Tok Pisin tu. Brata bilong mipela ol i go long stesin, orait ol i kisim save long stesin. Ol i kam bek orait ol i tok pisin.


Papua Niugini

From English Papua New Guinea, from Malay pepuah (“frizzy”) + new + Guinea.

Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea#English:_Q691


Adam

Tasol i no gat wanpela bilong ol dispela samting inap i stap poroman bilong helpim Adam.

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:20:


Afrika

Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)


Mande

days of the week: ol de bilong wik: Mande · Tunde · Trinde · Fonde · Fraide · Sarere · Sande [edit]


Ala

Bilip Islam i tok Ala bai skelim ol samting olgeta wan wan man i bin mekim na Ala bai makim em long i go long paradais o long bikpaia.

Islam teaches that Allah will judge each person according to their deeds and Allah will determine whether they will go to paradise or to hellfire.


God

Tudak i karamapim bikpela wara na spirit bilong God i go i kam antap long en.

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:2:


OPM

Borrowed from Indonesian OPM, acronym of Organisasi Papua Merdeka (“Free Papua Movement”).

Separatist movement of New Guinea that existed since 1963 until today.


Yurop

Europe (a continent located west of Asia and north of Africa)


Lae

Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea#English

Lae (a city, the provincial capital of Morobe, Papua New Guinea)


Mosbi

(informal) Port Moresby (the capital city of Papua New Guinea)


Ostrelia

Australia (a country consisting of a main island, the island of Tasmania and other smaller islands, located in Oceania; historically, a collection of former colonies of the British Empire)

(geology) Australia (a continent consisting of the land on the Australian tectonic plate, i.e. Australia, New Guinea and intervening islands)


Inglan

England (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

Britain, United Kingdom (a kingdom and country in Northern Europe)


Iden

Orait God, Bikpela i wokim wanpela gaden i stap long Iden, long hap bilong sankamap. Na long dispela gaden God i putim dispela man em i bin wokim.

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:8:


Kus

Nem bilong namba 2 wara em Gihon na em i go raunim kantri Kus.

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:13:


Taigris

Nem bilong namba 3 wara em Taigris na em i ran i go long hap sankamap bilong kantri Asiria. Na nem bilong namba 4 wara em Yufretis.

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:14:


Asiria

(historical) Assyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt))


Niu Briten

New Britain (an island in Papua New Guinea)


Nu Ailan

New Ireland (an island in Papua New Guinea)


Bogenvil

Bougainville (an island in Papua New Guinea)


Siapan

Japan (a country and archipelago in East Asia)


Fisi

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)


Sidni

Sydney (the capital city of New South Wales, Australia)


PMSA

Pot Mosbi Soka Asosiesen
Pot Mosbi Soka Asosiesen#Tok_Pisin

(soccer) Initialism of Pot Mosbi Soka Asosiesen.


Kavieng

Kavieng (a city, the provincial capital of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea)