The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

Isn’t Pidgin English just bad English?

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

John M. Lipski Lipski

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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.

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Lipski, John M. Lipski. Isn’t Pidgin English just bad English?. The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 47-50 Apr 2012. ISBN 9781908049490. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20743. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20743. Apr 2012

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