tokples

Tok Pisin

Etymology

tok (“language”) +‎ ples (“place”)

Noun

tokples

  1. A local language or lect.

Usage notes

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.

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