Tok Pisin is an official language of Papua New Guinea and has about 120,000 native speakers and some 4 million second-language speakers.
新美拉尼西亚语是巴布亚新几内亚独立国的官方语言，有12万人以此为母语，有4百万人以此为第二语言。
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Down to about 600 speakers (out of a tribal group of 900 +), Matukar is under immense pressure from the national language Tok Pisin and from English. Many of the children no longer speak it.