Torres Strait-Lockhart River Creole
Torres Strait-Lockhart River Creole is an Indo-European language spoken in Australia, by about 7,800 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Torres Strait Creole (Torres Strait Creole: Yumplatok), also known as Torres Strait Pidgin, Brokan/Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole, Kriol, Papuan, Broken English, Blaikman, Big Thap, Pizin, and Ailan Tok, is an English-based creole language (a variety of Pidgin English) spoken on several Torres Strait Islands of Queensland, Australia; Northern Cape York; and south-western coastal Papua New Guinea (PNG).
It has an estimated 20,000–30,000 mother-tongue and bi/tri-lingual speakers. It is widely used as a language of trade and commerce.
From Wikipedia · Torres Strait Creole · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Torres Strait-Lockhart River Creole
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | oman | |
| person | age* | |
| eye | ay* | |
| ear | taliNa* | |
| nose | nos* | |
| tooth | tit* | |
| tongue | tang | |
| hand | an* | |
| blood | blad* | |
| bone | bon* | |
| skin | skin* | |
| breast | susu | |
| liver | liba* | |
| water | wata* | |
| sun | san* | |
| star | sta* | |
| stone | ston* | |
| mountain | il* | |
| tree | tri* | |
| night | nait* | |
| dog | dog* | |
| cat | pusiket | |
| pig | pig | |
| louse | laus* | |
| one | wan* | |
| two | tu* | |
| I | ay* | |
| you | yu* | |
| we | mipla* | |
| drink | driN* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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