Tok Pisin = English
\nanka = anchor
\nansa = result \/ answer
\nansarim = to answer
\nantap = high \/ summit \/ up
\napinun = afternoon \/ evening (early)
\napinun = good afternoon
\nyunivesiti \/ univesiti = university
\nyusim = use
\nyutupela = you (two)
\nwokim = build (something)
\nwokim glas i go antap = wind up a window
\nwokim gut = repair (vb)
\nwokim \/ paitim bret = knead bread
\nwokman = worker \/ workman
\nwoksop = workshop<\/p>\n
** PNG Languages **<\/strong><\/p>\n PNG is linguistically the most complex nation of the world. Over 800 languages are spoken in The National or official languages of PNG are Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin and English.<\/p>\n Rotokas, a language spoken in PNG on the Island of Bougainville by approximately 4,300 people, It has been reported that PNG has one language for every 900 square kilometres of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tok Pisin = English anka = anchor ansa = result \/ answer ansarim = to answer antap = high \/ summit \/ up apinun = afternoon \/ evening (early) apinun = good afternoon yunivesiti \/ univesiti = university yusim = use yutupela = you (two) wokim = build (something) wokim glas i go antap = […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11,21,30],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthis Pacific country. — http:\/\/pnglanguages.org —<\/p>\n
\nhas the fewest sounds of any language, 11 (compared to the 44 or so of standard English).
\nThese 11 are made up of five vowels and six consonants: A, E, I, O, U, B, G, K, P, R, T – a language with only 11 sounds. Six of those are used in the name of the language.<\/p>\n