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	pidgin definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		The speech is generally slow and supported by mime and gesture; the vocabulary is basic and taken mostly from the language of the most important group of speakers; and the grammar has much in common with that typically used by native speakers talking to non-native speakers, or by mothers talking to young children.
		Pidgins with vocabularies from European languages developed extensively in the wake of European expansionism from the 15th century onward.
		Each pidgin, like each language, is unique but they share some characteristics: word order is fixed; there is little or no inflection; negation usually involves a "no" word in front of the verb; nouns and verbs are regular; the small vocabulary is used creatively; and speakers use local idioms, metaphors, and proverbs.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_/pidgin.html (401 words)

	Pidgins and Creoles - ninemsn Encarta
		Pidgins are often viewed as “broken” or inferior languages but they are in fact creative adaptations of natural languages, and have a grammatical structure and rules of their own.
		Some pidgins, known as expanded pidgins, may become so useful that they develop a formal role in communication and are sometimes given official status by a community as a lingua franca, as in the case of Hiri Motu, a Motu-based pidgin that is an official language in Papua New Guinea.
		If a pidgin is used frequently enough and develops more roles in a community it can be passed on by parents to children and so becomes a mother tongue; it is then called a creole, and its vocabulary, grammar, and other linguistic features undergo an expansion as the functions of the language expand.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557102/Pidgins_and_Creoles.html (428 words)

	Pidgin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pidgins become creole languages when a generation whose parents speak pidgin to each other teach it to their children as their first language.
		Sabir was a common pidgin in the Southwestern ports of the Mediterranean.
		Pidgin English was the name given to a Chinese-English-Portuguese pidgin used for commerce in Canton during the 18th and 19th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pidgin (1323 words)

	Pidgin
		Pidgin English (often referred to as "broken" English) on the other hand, is defined as "an English based pidgin -- especially one originally used in the Orient" (Webster’s 1991:890).
		Pidgin English usually carries the stigma of being a substandard language because it seems the majority of the speakers are people who have little or no experience in speaking English.
		Valdman stated that a pidgin becomes a creole when it is "acquired by children and becomes the primary language of a linguistic community" taking on "all the characteristics of normal language" (Academic American Encyclopedia 1990: 15).
	members.cox.net /kolohegirl/OLDPAGE/pidgin.htm (2365 words)

	Pidgin and Educatino
		Da Pidgin Coup is a group of people, mainly University of Hawai`i faculty and students in the Department of Second Language Studies, who have been meeting regularly since Fall 1998 to work on aspects of Pidgin (also known as Hawai`i Creole English and Hawai`i English Creole).
		Pidgin is said to be OK for joking around and having fun, but it's not OK for school.
		We should recognize that Pidgin is the first language of many students and that the process of comparing Pidgin to English and other languages will be an extremely effective means of developing understanding of variation in world languages and preparing students for the acquisition of additional languages.
	www.hawaii.edu /sls/pidgin.html (8145 words)

	Pidgin Productions - Education
		Pidgin helps its clients to develop both themselves and their ideas through workshops and practical experience.
		Pidgin is a member of the European Audio Visual Entrepreneurs and regularly attends film festivals, media markets and national and international film events.
		Pidgin has been on the panel of several high profile conferences staged by Bafta, BBC and Channel 4 dealing with culturally diverse issues.
	www.pidgin.org.uk /education.html (153 words)

	The Pidgin Dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Later on, pidgin became a language used in the household, but it was found that the children of pidgin speakers could not speak the parental language.
		There are two ways a pidgin can become a Creole: when speakers of a pidgin may be put into a position where they no longer can communicate with their mother tongue and if the pidgin is used as an everyday language taught to children as their first language.
		Pidgins have reduced inflectional and derivational morphology--the only thing that pidgins and Creoles have in common--in which they do not have inflection or little inflection and have some derivational morphology.
	t3.preservice.org /T0210825/Julie.html (857 words)

	PIDGIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pidgin is a way for ideas to escape the often hermetic confines of our computers, desks, and buildings and find their way into the larger world.
		Pidgin is a publication of the Princeton University School of Architecture.
		Pidgin always has more than one editor and we strive for a mix from the three programs at the graduate level (i.e.
	www.princeton.edu /~pidgin (557 words)

	Simplified Spelling Society : English spelling & Pidgin.
		Pidgin varieties of English language are thriving, however, partly because of this.
		Since these pidgins are derived from English it might seem sensible for those languages to be spelt as closely to English as possible, so that anyone literate in English would have no trouble with pidgin, and pidgin speakers could learn English more easily.
		Pidgins are moulded by necessity, not kept in a mould by tradition.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j6/pidgin.php (3030 words)

	Pidgins
		Pidgins are makeshift languages that arise when people who have no common language come into contact with each other.
		A good example of a non-European pidgin is the Chinook Jargon that was once used by American Indians and European traders in the Pacific Northwest.
		If a pidgin survives, and the next generation of speakers learns it as their first language or if it becomes a stable lingua franca, it becomes a creole.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/january2005/pidgins.html (519 words)

	Pidgin English -
		Pidgin was basically the result of immigrants arriving in Hawai'i who spoke different languages and interacted with one another.
		Pidgin is based on English in a simplified form using the basics in grammar omitting things such as tenses and prepositions.
		Since pidgin began with the immigrants, those people who were raised on the plantations where the convergence of immigrants were at the highest would be the ones who speak a much purer form of pidgin.
	webpages.charter.net /motuahina/pidgin.html (1079 words)

	AllRefer.com - pidgin (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The earliest documented pidgin is the Lingua Franca (or Sabir) that developed among merchants and traders in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages; it remained in use through the 19th cent.
		An example is the variety of pidgin English that resulted from contacts between English traders and the Chinese in Chinese ports.
		Examples of pidgins based on non-European languages are Chinook, once used by Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, and Lingua GEral, based on a Native American language and used in Brazil.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/pidgin.html (414 words)

	SULAIR: Reference Guide for Pidgin and Creole Languages
		Pidgin and Creole (hereafter P/C) studies have emerged as important challenges to linguistic theory and method.
		Some clearly Creole languages are classified as a Pidgin or "other" mixed languages, some are classified as dialects of their "target" languages (English, French, etc.,), and some are classed sometimes as a dialect and sometimes as a "mixed" language.
		Though it deals mostly with English-derived Pidgins and Creoles, it is a good overview of the field and provides a useful summary of recent theories of the genesis and development of these languages.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/pidgins/pidgin.html (2296 words)

	Surfline \| Pidgin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pidgin is the street language of the Hawaiian Islands and other islands in the Pacific, where a variety of European, Asian and native cultures mix.
		A pidgin typically arises in colonial situations and is used solely as a trade language.
		Hawaiian pidgin is a dialect that has evolved over the past 200 years from all the mixing ethnicities intermingling in the Hawaiian Islands.
	www.surfline.com /surfaz/pidgin.cfm (636 words)

	Pidgin Vs. Rotten English in Soyinka and Saro-Wiwa
		In most places Pidgin is reserved for the upper classes of society, while the majority of the people speak what Saro-Wiwa labels Rotten English.
		In most of his earlier works, the proportion of pidgin compared with English seems to increase in favor of teh former with the degree of informality of its speakers.
		Even though Pidgin and Rotten English are used by different authors for different purposes, they both have several goals and reasons in common.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/sarowiwa/pidgin.html (800 words)

	Language Miniatures 2: Pidgin languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One is simply that the pidgin is spelled phonetically, following the ways the speakers of these unrelated languages pronounce the English words.
		Occasionally it happens that a pidgin language proves so effective that it gradually edges out the native languages of the speakers, and itself becomes their dominant and most fluent language - and eventually their only one.
		Since we have no way of knowing the scale of pidginization and creolization in the past, this may even be one of the ways in which languages came into being.
	home.bluemarble.net /~langmin/miniatures/pidgin.htm (826 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser - Island Life
		Pidgin, once a plantation dialect born out of the necessity to communicate between people of disparate native languages, is now a hodgepodge of words and inflections, borrowed from other languages and dialects, but still beloved by its speakers.
		They discuss Pidgin as a legitimate language, using phrases such as "non-native speaker," "bilingual" and "sub-dialects." They discuss the social functions of pidgin, how people instantly relate to and feel comfortable with each other when Pidgin is used instead of the more formal standard English.
		That is the purpose of Da Pidgin Coup.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2001/Apr/29/il/il01a.html (1712 words)

	Salikoko Mufwene: Pidgin and Creole Languages
		Pidgins typically emerged in trade colonies which developed around trade forts or along trade routes, such as on the coast of West Africa.
		However, some creolists claim that pidgins are more stable and jargons are an earlier stage in the `life-cycle' that putatively progresses from Jargon, to Pidgin, to Creole, to Post-Creole by progressive structural expansion, stabilization, and closer approximations of the lexifier–the language which contributed the largest part of a Creole's lexicon.
		Thus, Creoles have been defined inaccurately as `nativized pidgins,' i.e., pidgins that have acquired native speakers and have therefore expanded both their structures and functions and have stabilized.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mufwene/pidginCreoleLanguage.html (3599 words)

	Language Varieties: Definitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A pidgin is a new language which develops in situations where speakers of different languages need to communicate but don't share a common language.
		But the later "stable pidgin" develops its own grammatical rules which are quite different from those of the lexifier.
		Once a stable pidgin has emerged, it is generally learned as a second language and used for communication among people who speak different languages.
	www.une.edu.au /langnet/defintions.htm (400 words)

	Educational CyberPlayGround: What is Pidgin? What is Creole?
		A pidgin is a new language which develops in situations where speakers of different languanges need to communicate but don't share a common language.
		A PIDGIN is a version of a language which is stripped of virtually everything except what is necessary to basic communication, meaning no, or all but no morphology, a relatively small lexicon, a preference for juxtaposition over subordination, etc.
		Creoles are distinguished synchronically by, though being full languages, retaining signs of their pidgin ancestry, such as virtual absence of both inflection and tone, and highly transparent derivational processes.
	www.edu-cyberpg.com /Linguistics/explainpidgin.html (410 words)

	Hawaiian Pidgin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 19th and 20th centuries, Pidgin started to be used outside the plantation between ethnic groups.
		For this reason, linguists generally consider Hawaiian Pidgin to be a creole language.
		i Pidgin is a full-fledged language with its own grammar, pronunciation, intonation, and domains of use, it is viewed by some to be "substandard", or as a "corrupted" form of English, or even as broken English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hawaiian_Pidgin (1412 words)

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