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There are numerous ones. Since the Colonial era, they include English, French, Japanese, Chinese, and others, including creole languages heavily influenced by European languages. Bislama, for instance, is the English-based creole of Vanuatu, while another English-based crole, Tok Pisin, is the lingua franca of New Guinea.

Aside from those more recent arrivals, though, Pacific Islanders use various languages, mostly from the Austronesian language family. They include Hawaiian, Maori, Nauruan, Marshallese, Tahitian, Tongan, Samoan, Tuvaluan, Gilbertese, and numerous others.

Additionally, the island of New Guinea has a very large number of native languages, most of which are not known to be related to any other languages spoken outside of New Guinea. Many of them are language isolates (languages with no known relatives) or belong to very small language families.

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