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Pidgin News Realities and Language Lessons in New Guinea
Nu Gini Toktok, an eight page tabloid in pidgin English, teaches adults and children in Port Moresby and Lae readers about local news and headlines. The piece explains pidgin usage, literacy limits, and the role of readers in villages while noting the magazine’s small circulation. It also covers meadow mice reproduction, noting a single pair could produce over a million offspring in a year.
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Indonesia
Nu Gini Toktok
New Guinea
Haus Bret Bilong Lae
Bread House of
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