Data Source: 
 Tryon, Darrell. 2007. Australia:Time of Contact. Atlas of the World's Languages, ed. by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley, 131. Oxford: Routledge.

"Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Composite". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships

Date Digitized:  August 2011

Map Description:
New Guinea Pidgin (Tok Pisin) is the the dominant spoken variety in Papua New Guinea, as can be seen from this map. Its origins lie in the plantations in Samoa where there was English language contact among labourers. Its use then spread across Papua New Guinea and it still possesses typical creole characteristics. This map also shows the movements of specific varieties of Lingua Francas. Most of the Lingua Francas were developed as a result of missionary activity of the churches.

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.

Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
This folder (Australia and the Pacific: Pidgins, Creoles and Lingua Francas) contains other maps which show the distribution of varieties spoken in this region. These maps can be observed side-by-side.