Pidgin and Creole Languages

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Pidgin and Creole Languages

• PIDGIN
• developed for some practical purpose e.g.
  trading
• no native speakers
• absence of grammatical morphemes
• limited vocabulary

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Pidgin Examples

• pinga
• bikpela pinga
• bikpela pinga belong leg
• buk bilong you
• youmi

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Creoles

• if a pidgin becomes a first language of a social
  community
• native speakers
• French Creoles in Haiti
• English Creoles in Jamaica