Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Fast Facts: Here’s Number of people: how you say ... “How are you?” in Tok Pisin: Yu stap gut? (yoo stahp goot?) 7,732,000 Main language: Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Papua New Guinean Sign Did you know? Language and English Main religion: Papua New Guinea takes up around half the island of New Guinea in the Pacific. Christianity The other half is part of Indonesia, a country in Asia. New Guinea is the second biggest island in the whole world! Only Greenland is bigger. The country of Papua Total # of languages: New Guinea is mostly made up of mountains and rainforests, but there are some 838 rolling hills and beaches too. The island is one of the least explored countries in the # of languages ... world because of how thick the rainforest is! In fact, people are still discovering new without any of the Bible: 462 animals, plants, people groups and languages all around the island. Here’s another cool fact — the smallest frog in the world, called the paedophryne amauensis, was with part of the Bible: 125 discovered in Papua New Guinea. It’s around the size of a fly! with a New Testament: 236 There are a LOT of languages spoken in Papua New Guinea. As you can see in with a whole Bible: 15 the fast facts section, there are so many languages that there isn’t just one main language spoken in the country — there are four! Papua New Guinea has the most languages that still need the Bible translated for them. More than 450 are still waiting for even a chapter of the Bible in their language. That’s more than any other country in the world! With over 800 languages spoken there, you can find everything from English to Chinese. That’s a lot of languages still waiting for the Bible and a lot of people who still need to hear about Jesus! Let’s pray! Dear Jesus, Thank you for all the people who live in Papua New Guinea. They speak a lot of different languages, and they might not be able to understand each other if they don’t speak the same one. But we know that you speak their language — all 838 of them! Please help people translate the Bible for all these people so that they can learn that you speak their language and want them to know about you. Then they can learn about how much you love them! We love you, Jesus, and we want everyone to get to know you in the language they understand best. MKTG4425.