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Preferred term

hmoHiri Motu  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Hiri Motu, (also known as Police Motu or Pidgin Motu) is an official language of Papua New Guinea. It is a simplified version of Motu and although it is strictly neither a pidgin nor a creole it possesses some features of both language types. Phonological and grammatical differences mean not only that Hiri Motu speakers cannot understand Motu, but also that Motu speakers not exposed to Hiri Motu have similar difficulties, though the languages are lexically very similar, and retain a common Austronesian syntactical basis.

Entry terms

  • Hiri Motu language

ISO 639-1 code

  • ho

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • hmo

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • hmo

ISO 639-3 code

  • hmo

Notation

  • hmo

In other languages

  • hiri motu

    French

  • Hiri motu
  • Hiri-Motu

    German

  • Hiri Motu
  • hiri motu

    Italian

  • Lingua hiri motu
  • hiri motu

    Portuguese

  • Hiri Motu
  • Hiri motu

    Spanish

  • hiri motu

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/hmo

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