Pidgins

The emergence of Chicano English is similar in some ways to the development of a special set of languages called pidgins and creoles. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Lingua Franca, or rather any of a number of related pidgins descended from Latin, eventually became lingua franca, any language that speakers use as a common tongue. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

The term was rather a catchall for a variety of pidgins spoken in the Levant. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

Depending on the native languages of people speaking them, the pidgins collectively referred to as Lingua Franca also integrated elements from Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, and other native languages of the Mediterranean. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

These pidgins resembled the one resorted to by our Portuguese-speaking whaler and his Inupiaq-speaking interlocutors: they were never spoken as mother tongues. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

Plus, according to Wikipedia, there are over 133 regional varieties of English, 12 types of official English pidgins and creoles, and 27 or newfangled blends, such as Chinglish (Chinese and English), Spanglish, and Swinglish. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And so we must appreciate that the non-finite-verb sentence is a normal mode of expression in English and in other languages: pidgins are not responsible for the phenomenon, however productive they may have been in certain cases. ❋ DC (2010)

This postwar polyglottism was just a faint foreshadowing, I think, of the pidgins and creoles (the very words sound like species of bird) to come in the wake of globalism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Not to mention some really fascinating works dealing with language and power, pidgins, diglossia, and creoles – the latter being an interesting case, because the term itself refers to a pidgin that becomes a language in its own right, but technically means “blackened”, and was originally something of a slur itself! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Baker/Jones, Encyclopaedia of bilingualism and bilingual education 1998, p.147: "English-based pidgins derive as much as 90 percent of their lexicon from English." ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to the ˜superstratist™ hypothesis, creolization occurs not when children acquire language from pidgins, but when successive waves of adult speakers try to learn the language of the dominant culture as a second language. ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)

Creoles arise when pidgins are elaborated both syntactically and semantically, and take on the characteristics of bona fide natural languages. ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)

Kids are the ones who cook simple pidgins into rich creoles. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Or aMSN steal pidgins great integration and desktop awareness example: the icon that never stays in the tray and general stability ❋ Unknown (2007)