New Guinea and other parts of Melanesia, the term "soccer" is the preferred term for the sport, due to the large Australian influence in the region. In Papua New Guinea, the national association is the Papua New Guinea Football Association but the national league is the Papua New Guinea National Soccer League. In Tok Pisin, "soka" refers to "soccer", "ragbi" refers to rugby and "futbal" refers to other codes of football (i.e. Australian rules football, or "futbal bilong Ostrelia"). Other English-speaking countries On the island of Ireland, "football" or "footballer" most often refers to association football or Gaelic football. It may also refer to rugby union. The association football federations are called the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and the Irish Football Association (IFA) and the top clubs are called "Football Club". Furthermore, those whose primary interest lies in this game often call their sport "football" and refer to Gaelic football as "Gaelic football" or "Gaelic" (although they may also use "soccer"). The terms "football" and "soccer" are used interchangeably in Ireland's media. In most of Ulster, the northern province in Ireland, especially in Northern Ireland, East Donegal and Inishowen, association football is usually referred to as 'football' while Gaelic football is usually referred to as 'Gaelic'. In Pakistan, Liberia, Nigeria and other English-speaking countries, both football and soccer are used both officially and commonly. Non-English-speaking countries Association football, in its modern form, was exported by the British to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted this common English term for the sport into their own language. This was usually done in one of two ways: either by directly importing the word itself, or as a calque by translating its constituent parts, foot and ball. In English, the word football was known in writing by the 14th century, as laws which prohibit similar games date back to at least that century. From English football Albanian: futboll Armenian: ֆուտբոլ (futbol) Bangla: ফুটবল (futbol) Belarusian: футбол (futbol) Bulgarian: футбол (futbol), the sport was initially called ритнитоп (ritnitop, literally "kickball"); footballers are still sometimes mockingly called ритнитопковци (ritnitopkovtsi "ball kickers") today. Catalan: futbol Czech: fotbal (kopaná for "kick game" is also used) Filipino: futbol (ᜉᜓᜆ᜔ᜊᜓᜎ᜔ in baybayin) French: football (except in French Canada where it is soccer) Galician: fútbol Hindi: फ़ुटबॉल (futbol) Japanese:フットボール (futtobōru: represents "football") is a variant, but サッカー (sakkā: represents "soccer") is most commonly