Pidgin: The Languages Of Oceania Phrasebook

by Lonely Planet, Peter Mulhausler, Trevor Balzer

The best available guide to the pidgins and creols of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, north Australia and Torres Strait. These fascinating languages have developed from English, so you'll recognize plenty of words, but their grammar, sentence structure and extensive vocabularies mean that you'll find this phrasebook invaluable in understanding the language around you.

In This

Wherever you travel in the region, and despite the huge numbers of local languages, you can still communicate easily.
Cultural tips throughout.
Get around without a hitch.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

OUR STORY
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.

Reviews

[Sonia]

Excellent resource

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Arcane subject ... well covered.