Catchword: wantok

Filed under: English-based Creole, Papua New Guinea

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Feuds can last months, even years, in a country in which allegiance to “wantok,” literally “one talk,” the pidgin English term for a person’s language group or tribe, is paramount.

Article or document title:
“Tribal rows used to be settled by bow and arrow, now it’s an M-16” (URL)

Author:
Nick Squires

Article, document, publication, web site:
Telegraph

Publishing location:
U.K.

Dateline:
Papua New Guinea

Date of publication:
Sept. 3, 2005

This catchword has yet to be researched.