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What does pidgin mean?

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  1. (linguistics) an amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers.
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In sociolinguistic terms, Tok Pisin is an expanded pidgin currently undergoing creolization.
While not quite docents in a museum, they nonetheless will provide you with an overview that is several steps above pidgin history.
The native tribes in the interior, however, use their own language, and the African tribes use Taki-Taki, a pidgin English.
He could speak a smattering of Maori, or pidgin Maori, where the language is broken down and simplified, so he was given the job of interpreter.
Lexical items in pidgin languages tend to cover a wider semantic domain than in the base language.
With hundreds of traditional languages, literacy levels are low, including in the third official language, Bislama, a form of pidgin English.

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