| We can note, for instance, the general avoidance of fricatives and affricates in pidgin phonological inventories. |
| Some linguists classify the Gullah language, spoken in the North Carolina islands, as a pidgin that is based on West African syntax. |
| Lexical items in pidgin languages tend to cover a wider semantic domain than in the base language. |
| 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. |
| As we all know, our pidgin dialect lacks the elegance and grace of the Queen's English. |
| In sociolinguistic terms, Tok Pisin is an expanded pidgin currently undergoing creolization. |
