Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of its capital...
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Languages of Papua New Guinea (section Hiri Motu)
Unserdeutsch. Languages with statutory recognition are Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu, and Papua New Guinean Sign Language. Tok Pisin, an English-based creole...
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of Indonesia Hiri Motu, an official language of Papua New Guinea Hiri Rural LLG, a local-level government area in Papua New Guinea The Hiri trade cycle...
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Papua New Guinea (category Articles containing Hiri Motu-language text)
Hiri Motu or English' as well as "tok ples" and "ita eda tano gado." In addition, section 67 (2)(c) mentions "speak and understand Pisin or Hiri Motu...
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Motu (sometimes called Pure Motu or True Motu to distinguish it from Hiri Motu) is a Central Papuan Tip language that is spoken by the Motuans, an indigenous...
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Hiri is the name for the traditional trade voyages that formed an important part of the culture of the Motu people of Papua New Guinea. The Motu live in...
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languages. There are several creoles of the region, such as Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay. The origin of Melanesians...
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possibly English). Over the decades, Tok Pisin has increasingly overtaken Hiri Motu as the dominant lingua franca among town-dwellers. Perhaps one million...
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hin hin hin Individual Living हिन्दी (Hindī) Hiri Motu ho hmo hmo hmo Individual Living Hiri Motu Police Motu; Hungarian hu hun hun hun Individual Living...
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parts of the coast, and recently developed creoles such as Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Unserdeutsch, and Papuan Malay. The term "Papuan" is used in a wider...
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significant intermarriage between the coastal Motu and the more inland Koitabu. Every year, they practiced the hiri, when community members made trading voyages...
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New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Niugini; Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Indonesian: Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island...
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part of the southern mainland coastal area centred on Central Province, Hiri Motu is a stronger lingua franca (but not in Port Moresby). Each province in...
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Western New Guinea (Indonesia) Languages English, Indonesian, Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, 269 indigenous Papuan and Austronesian languages, and about 70 Indigenous...
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Pidgin Bilingual pun Camfranglais (Cameroon) Creole language Engrish Hiri Motu International auxiliary language Lingua franca Macaronic language Mixed...
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Uriankhai (category Articles containing Hiri Motu-language text)
Uriankhai (traditional Mongolian: ᠤᠷᠢᠶᠠᠩᠬᠠᠢ, Mongolian Cyrillic: урианхай; Yakut: урааҥхай; traditional Chinese: 烏梁海; simplified Chinese: 乌梁海; pinyin:...
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Sarong (category Articles containing Hiri Motu-language text)
lap-lap and it is worn by men and women. In the other lingua franca, Hiri Motu, it is called rami. In Rotuma, it is known as a hạ' fạli. In Samoa it...
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List of Wikipedias (redirect from Hiri Motu Wikipedia)
(closed) Herero Latn hz (closed) Unknown date 24 July 2007 Hiri Motu Wikipedia (closed) Hiri Motu Latn ho (closed) Unknown date 9 July 2007 Kanuri Wikipedia...
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national language) Palau (with Palauan) Papua New Guinea (with Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu) Philippines (with Filipino) Rwanda (with French and Kinyarwanda) Saint...
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of Papua New Guinea. New Guinea portal List of colonial heads of Papua Hiri Motu History of Papua New Guinea History of Queensland History of Australia...
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Papua New Guinea In Tok Pisin: Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini In Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini King Charles III Prime Minister Parliamentary 1975 Qatar...
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and with the wider world. Most notable among these are Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu in Papua New Guinea. They are now both considered distinct creole languages...
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Palestine Arabic English Hebrew Panama Spanish Papua New Guinea English Hiri Motu PNG Sign Language Tok Pisin Paraguay Spanish Guaraní Peru Spanish Quechua...
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Philippines Gilbertese 120,000 Taetae ni Kiribati Kiribati Hiri Motu 120,000 (L2) Hiri Motu Papua New Guinea Indonesian 300,000,000 Bahasa Indonesia Indonesia...
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List of countries and dependencies and their capitals in native languages (category Articles containing Hiri Motu-language text)
Niugini Papua Niu Gini Port Moresby Pot Mosbi Pot Mosbi English Tok Pisin Hiri Motu Paraguay Asunción Paraguay Paraguái Asunción Paraguay Spanish Guaraní...
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and Pakistan Hinuq – гьинузас мец Spoken in: Dagestan , Russia Hiri Motu – Hiri Motu Official language in: Papua New Guinea Hmong – lol Hmongb, lus Hmoob...
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19th-century English-based pidgin of New Guinea. It was eventually replaced by Hiri Motu, a Melanesian-based pidgin, and was not ancestral to modern English-based...
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1242.8 million PGK General details Primary languages English, Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu and others System type Public, religious, private Literacy (2015 est)...
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Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini (Hiri Motu), Papua Niugini (shortform, Tok Pisin), Papua Niu Gini (shortform, Hiri Motu) PRY Paraguay a Republic of Paraguay...
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Port Moresby 462,840 a7,400,000 14.5 2,399 0.491 Papua New Guinean kina (PGK; K) English, Tok Pisin, and Hiri Motu Charles III James Marape Observer...
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