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    A pidgin is a contact language with no native speakers that develops for communication between groups that do not have a language in common, while a creole is a pidgin that has been adopted as a native language by a community. Pidgins originated from colonialism, trade, and slavery as a mix of local languages and European languages like English, French, and Portuguese. Some examples of creole languages still actively spoken today include Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea, Papiamento in Aruba and Curaçao, Hawaiian Pidgin English in Hawaii, and French-based creoles in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean.

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    A pidgin is a contact language with no native speakers that develops for communication between groups that do not have a language in common, while a creole is a pidgin that has been adopted as a native language by a community. Pidgins originated from colonialism, trade, and slavery as a mix of local languages and European languages like English, French, and Portuguese. Some examples of creole languages still actively spoken today include Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea, Papiamento in Aruba and Curaçao, Hawaiian Pidgin English in Hawaii, and French-based creoles in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean.

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    A pidgin is a contact language with no native speakers that develops for communication between groups that do not have a language in common, while a creole is a pidgin that has been adopted as a native language by a community. Pidgins originated from colonialism, trade, and slavery as a mix of local languages and European languages like English, French, and Portuguese. Some examples of creole languages still actively spoken today include Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea, Papiamento in Aruba and Curaçao, Hawaiian Pidgin English in Hawaii, and French-based creoles in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean.

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    Pidgin And Creole Languages

    1. Definition

    a. A pidgin is a language with no native speakers: it is no ones first language but is a


    contact language.
    b. A creole is often define as a pidgin that has become the first language of a new generation
    of speakers.

    2. Locations

    The origin of pidgin comes from colonialism, trade and slavery. Pidgin languages started
    to develop in areas where the colonists and traders came and settled. Pidgin is a mix of local
    languages with influences of English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Chinese
    etc. At that time pidgin was the lingua franca for trading and a communication tool for slaves.
    Have you heard of this expression Long time no see? That is a simple example of
    Pidgin based on English. People understand it right away although the elaborate version of it
    is It has been a long time that I have seen you.

    a. A pidgin has no native speakers (native speakers). If you have a native speaker's language
    is called a creole language. So, creole is a pidgin development that has had a parent
    language (mother tongue). Some languages are considered creole language in Indonesia,
    among others, is the Malay language and Betawi Malay Ambon. So, creole is the result of
    language contact as well which is the development of a pidgin.

    b. Pidgin creole arises when a mother tongue in a particular community. The structure is still
    describe the structure of pidgin, creole but called for being their mother tongue. Pidgin
    can be a creole when the foreign speakers and used by his descendants were then frozen
    as their first language. It just said creole pidgin language if this has been going on for
    generations.

    c. Examples of Creole languages that still exist and are actively spoken now:
    1) Tok Pisin, one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea. Tok pisin is
    derived from talk pidgin. Tok pisin consists of primarily English influences
    but it has also absorbed influences from German, Malay, Portuguese and their
    own Austronesian languages .

    2) Papiamento or Papiamentu, one of the official languages in Aruba, Bonaire


    en Curaao. It is a mix of local language with Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch,
    English and American Indian languages.

    3) Hawaiian Pidgin or Hawaiian Pidgin English or simply called Pidgin is


    spoken in Hawaii. This creole language is a mix of Portuguese, Hawaiian,
    American English, Cantonese and Japanese languages.

    4) French based creoles are widely spoken in the Caribbean (Guadeloupe &
    Martinique), Indian Ocean (Seychelles, Runion & Mauritius).

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