A pidgin is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common.
A creole is a language that has originated from a pidgin that has becoe nativised (that is acquired by children as their primary language)
Pidgin
- Between 17th & 19th century, 4 million Africans were taken to the Caribbean as slaves
- Slave traders deliberately mixed them up so only few spoke the same language or from the same tribe
- This meant new languages, called pidgins were created
Pidgin to Creole
- Languages have limited vocabulary, simples grammatical structure
- Have their own rules e.g. trading in the main purpose behind chinook jargon
- Pidgins cease to exist with no purpose
- Sometimes a pidgin becomes the first language of the next generations when it is no longer a pidgin, it's a creole.
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