Pidgin
noun
A simplified form of speech formed from one or more languages and used as a common language between speakers who have different native languages.
Many workers in the plantation communicate using a pidgin language formed from their respective native languages.
Often appears as...
- pidgin english
- speak in pidgin
noun
A simplified form of speech formed from one or more languages and used as a common language between speakers who have different native languages.
Many workers in the plantation communicate using a pidgin language formed from their respective native languages.
Often appears as...
- pidgin english
- speak in pidgin
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Simplified Language
Pidgin is not a complex language; it focuses on basic communication without grammatical intricacies.
He spoke in pidgin to ensure everyone could understand the basic instructions.
Pro Tip 2/3Common Ground
Pidgin arises for mutual understanding when speakers do not share a first language.
At the international market, vendors used a pidgin to negotiate prices.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Blending
Pidgin often includes words and expressions from different cultures, showing a blend of backgrounds.
The local pidgin had Spanish terms mixed with indigenous language expressions.
Pro Tip 1/3Simplified Language
Pidgin is not a complex language; it focuses on basic communication without grammatical intricacies.
He spoke in pidgin to ensure everyone could understand the basic instructions.
Pro Tip 2/3Common Ground
Pidgin arises for mutual understanding when speakers do not share a first language.
At the international market, vendors used a pidgin to negotiate prices.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Blending
Pidgin often includes words and expressions from different cultures, showing a blend of backgrounds.
The local pidgin had Spanish terms mixed with indigenous language expressions.
Pro Tip 1/3Simplified Language
Pidgin is not a complex language; it focuses on basic communication without grammatical intricacies.
He spoke in pidgin to ensure everyone could understand the basic instructions.
Pro Tip 2/3Common Ground
Pidgin arises for mutual understanding when speakers do not share a first language.
At the international market, vendors used a pidgin to negotiate prices.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Blending
Pidgin often includes words and expressions from different cultures, showing a blend of backgrounds.
The local pidgin had Spanish terms mixed with indigenous language expressions.
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Video examples
Tweeting in Pitjantjatjar...
Internet is whatever we put on there the other thing about the Internet is it only is you know things nowadays are only real when they're on the Internet and when I looked on the internet there was nothing in pidgin Jarrah there was nothing there was no written language there was no recording of it there was nothing at all and I said here's a
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What does it take to...
imitate the quirks and idiosyncrasies of natural language in order to do that Cohn wingers have learned a lot from historical linguistics and linguistic typology and pidgin and creole languages the language is what they do is they change over a long period of time in the
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The rhythm of Afrobeat PIPE...
more and more the world is dancing to our rhythm and talking our pidgin. Yeah? Thanks, Nigeria, we'll use that for across the board.
Video examples
Tweeting in Pitjantjatjar...
Internet is whatever we put on there the other thing about the Internet is it only is you know things nowadays are only real when they're on the Internet and when I looked on the internet there was nothing in pidgin Jarrah there was nothing there was no written language there was no recording of it there was nothing at all and I said here's a
Video examples
What does it take to...
imitate the quirks and idiosyncrasies of natural language in order to do that Cohn wingers have learned a lot from historical linguistics and linguistic typology and pidgin and creole languages the language is what they do is they change over a long period of time in the
Video examples
The rhythm of Afrobeat PIPE...
more and more the world is dancing to our rhythm and talking our pidgin. Yeah? Thanks, Nigeria, we'll use that for across the board.
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Quote examples
Peaches Geldof
British Journalist
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.
Quote examples
Peaches Geldof
British Journalist
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.
Example 1 of 1
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