Tok Pisin News Broadcast

Read the news in Tok Pisin from Radio Australia

Listen to a news summary in Tok Pisin

While many words in the printed stories are recognizable from their English forms (especially titles and names), you will not see inflected markings such as plurals or verb endings. Notice the reduplicated forms (toktok "talk") and the all-purpose preposition blong (from English belong). What other characteristic features of pidgin can you find in these excerpts of Tok Pisin?