Pidgins
are
languages
that
are
born
after
contact
between
at
least
two
languages
.
As
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pidgins
developed
during
the
period
of
empire
and
international
trade
,
one
of
the
language
'parents'
was
frequently
a
European
language
such
as
French
or
English
,
and
the
other
language
parent
was
the
language
of
the
people
with
whom
the
Europeans
were
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or
whom
they
were
colonizing
.
Usually
one
of
the
languages
provided
the
majority
of
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items
and
the
other
provided
the
grammatical
structure
.
When
pidgins
become
learned
as
a
mother
tongue
,
they
become
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as
creoles
.
I
am
not
going
to
discuss
pidgins
and
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and
contact
languages
as
such
in
this
book
in
____________________
depth
.