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What are the official languages?

• Hiri Motu

• Tok Pisin

• English

How many languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea?

• More than 800

• Less than 100

• About 500

How have so many languages survived?

Why do people speak English there?

Read again and write True or False.

• True

• False

Six million people live in Papua New Guinea.

• True

• False

There are more than 800 official languages.

• True

• False

Most people have the same mother tongue.

• True

• False

In schools and businesses, people use English.

• True

• False

The first inhabitants were tribes that arrived from Europe.

• True

• False