tokples

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Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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tok (language) +‎ ples (place)

Noun

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tokples

  1. A local language or lect.

Usage notes

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Sometimes used to refer to any language native to a certain place (for example, calling English a tokples of England), but often in reference to the native languages of the aboriginal tribes of Papua New Guinea.

See also

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