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1001 Papua New Guinean Nights  (http://members.tripod.com/%7ETHSlone/1001PNGnights.html)
One Thousand and One Papua New Guinea Nights is a collection of folk tales from Papua New Guinea. This web site contains bibliographic information as well as sample folk tales in both Tok Pisin and English.

English in the South Pacific  (http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/paclangunit/English%5FSouth%5FPacific.htm)
Part of the Pacific Languages Unit's web site, this page provides an article by John Lynch and France Mugler about the use of English in Melanesia and Polynesia.

Polynesian Languages and Literature Group  (http://www.ling.su.se/pollinet/index.html)
This is the web site of the Polynesian Language and Literature Group at the Linguistic Department at the University of Stockholm. The site contains linguistic information about Polynesian languages including Nukumanu, Nukuria and Takuu that are spoken in Papua New Guinea.

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