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Book: The Five-Minute Linguist

Chapter: Isn’t Pidgin English just bad English?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20743

Blurb:

Pidgin is a language formed among people who share no native language and are forced to communicate using elements of one that none of them speaks well. The new languages, spoken natively by the next generation in the family, are called creole languages by linguists.

Chapter Contributors

  • John M. Lipski Lipski (Lipski@equinoxpub.com - jlipski1)