• Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby...
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  • Motu (sometimes called Pure Motu or True Motu to distinguish it from Hiri Motu) is a Central Papuan Tip language that is spoken by the Motuans, an indigenous...
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    Creole and Unserdeutsch. Languages with statutory recognition are Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu, and Papua New Guinean Sign Language. Tok Pisin, an English-based...
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    Papua New Guinea (category Articles containing Hiri Motu-language text)
    of Papua New Guinea (Tok Pisin: Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), it shares its only land border...
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  • of Indonesia Hiri Motu, an official language of Papua New Guinea Hiri Rural LLG, a local-level government area in Papua New Guinea The Hiri trade cycle...
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    retaining most of the land rights in the Port Moresby region. Motu language Hiri Motu language Hiri trade cycle Ratzel, Friedrich (1896). "The History of Mankind"...
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    Hiri is the name for the traditional trade voyages that formed an important part of the culture of the Motu people of Papua New Guinea. The Motu live in...
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    wedding". 2005 POPPE, Nicholas (1969). "Review of Menges "The Turkic Languages and Peoples"". Central Asiatic Journal. 12 (4): 330. Mänchen-Helfen, Otto...
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    Sarong (category Articles containing Hiri Motu-language text)
    lap-lap and it is worn by men and women. In the other lingua franca, Hiri Motu, it is called rami. In Rotuma, it is known as a hạ' fạli. In Samoa it...
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    languages. There are several creoles of the region, such as Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay. The origin of Melanesians...
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