NationMaster - Papua New Guinean Language statistics

English speakers	50,000	[16th of 52]
English status Official language. Used in schools. Bible 1535-1989.
English-speaking population > First language	50,000	[19th of 62]
English-speaking population > Total	50,000	[55th of 99]
Languages Melanesian Pidgin serves as the lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2%, Motu spoken in Papua region; note: 820 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world's total)
Languages > A note 715 indigenous languages
Languages > Note 820 indigenous languages spoken (over one-tenth of the world's total)
Languages of the African Union > Illiteracy > Literacy rate	57.3	[148th of 174]

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SOURCES: Ethnologue; Wikipedia: List of countries by English-speaking population ; Wikipedia: List of countries by English-speaking population; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Languages of the African Union

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, new guinea, papua n.g.

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Miss Upset
30th October 2005

I wanted the OFFICIAL language , and all you gave me were all kinds of languages!
Next time please be more specific. Now I'll never finish my homework.

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