The Wayfaring Scribe: April 2015

Tok Pisin Dictionary

Tok Pisin - Trade language of Papua New Guinea based strongly on English.

Tok Ples - The language of the village. Papua New Guinea has over 800 different Tok Ples

buskanaka - a jungle version of a hillbilly

toksave - memo, FYI, little blurb of information

buai, betelnut - betelnut is actually English, but it's a local stimulant that like all socially acceptable drugs, with stain your teeth and give you cancer.

Wasfemili - A family who adopts you in the culture and then to whom you are bond in cultural family roles. Everyone's related to everyone in the village and the relationships strongly influence the interactions.

swit - sweet, used for sugary quality, delicious food, and, when concerning Scripture, is to say, this is natural and beautiful in my language and falls on my ears like poetry.

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