![]() ![]() "A creole comes into being when children are born into a pidgin-speaking environment and acquire the pidgin as a first language.Most pidgins are structurally simple, although if used over many generations, they do evolve, as do all languages (Aitchison, 1983 Sankoff & Laberge, 1973)." (Erika Hoff, Language Development, 5th ed., Wadsworth, 2014) "ore than 100 pidgin languages are currently in use (Romaine, 1988).pidgin languages survive today in territories which formerly belonged to the European colonial nations, and act as lingua francas for example, West African Pidgin English is used extensively between several ethnic groups along the West African coast." (David Crystal, English As a Global Language. ![]() ![]() In time, most pidgin languages disappear, as the pidgin-speaking community develops, and one of its established languages becomes widely known and takes over the role of the pidgin as the lingua franca, or language of choice of those who do not share a native language." (Grover Hudson, Essential Introductory Linguistics. "At first a pidgin language has no native speakers and is used just for doing business with others with whom one shares the pidgin language and no other.The fact that they develop a complete syntactically rich language even when exposed to pidgins suggests an internal language acquisition mechanism that takes in the input of linguistic structures and develops it into a language using some universal grammar. If language is merely a socially transmitted communication system, then children could grow up speaking pidgin as their language. Its verb phrase phonology, lexicon, morphology and syntax as well as demonstratives are from Cree.Įxploring the emergence of creoles from pidgins show the inherent instinct for language in human beings. Michif noun phrase phonology, lexicon, morphology, and syntax as well as articles, adjectives are derived from Métis French. Michif combines Cree and Métis French with words borrowed from English, and some neighbouring Indigenous languages. Michif is another example of a fully developed creole language. It developed from pidgins of Scottish English, Scottish Gaelic, French, Norn, Cree, and Ojibwe. A creole that developed Scottish Red River Métis in present-day Manitoba is Bungi Creole. This indicates that human beings have some in-build language mechanism that can develop a language with the mere exposure to linguistic structures. Unlike the simplified pidgins, creoles are syntactically rich and complete languages. A creole is a pidgin language that has become the native language of the children of adult pidgin speakers. Instead, they develop a complete language known as creole. While pidgins exist as second languages for adult speakers, if the children of those adults are exposed to a pidgin, they do not grow up speaking it. The reason we are discussion pidgins here is to explore the extraordinary drive towards language in human beings. Labrador Inuit Pidgin French was a pidgin heavily influenced by French and spoken in Labrador until the 1760s. Algonquian–Basque pidgin was used by Basque whalers and Algonquin communities the Gulf of Saint Lawrence up to the 1710s. Inuktitut-English Pidgin was used in Quebec and Labrador. Linguistic characteristics such as gender and number (singular and plural) are excludedĪs Canada has a long history of contact between various language communities, it has had a large share of pidgins developing over the centuries. To facilitate transactions between their communities, the Inuvialuit, or Mackenzie River Inuit, and the Indigenous Athabaskan speakers used an Inuit trade jargon.Syllables tend to be simple and often lack codas.They tend not to have complicated phrase structures. ![]() Pidgins usually have the following characteristics: It is built from the words and sounds from a number of languages with a limited core vocabulary. Pidgins are not native to any speech community. It is common when communities come together for trade and they are not considered complete languages. It usually develops when two or more groups have to develop a system of communication when a common language doesn’t exist. A pidgin language is a grammatically simplified communication method. ![]()
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