The dynamics of pidgin and creole languages reflect the processes by which contact varieties emerge, evolve and stabilise into fully-fledged linguistic systems. Pidgins originate in situations of ...

This news release is available in German. A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific has been published by ...

When groups of people who speak different languages come together, they sometimes inadvertently create a new one, combining bits of each into something everyone can use to communicate easily.

Creole languages neither retain all grammatical features of their origin languages, as some have claimed, nor are creoles the simplest grammars in the world, according to a new analysis published in ...

Nigerian Pidgin English, a Creole language derived from English mixed with other indigenous languages, has evolved over decades as a means of communication between diverse linguistic communities ...

Also called, ‘broken’, it is an English-based Creole that has been adopted as a pseudo-lingua franca or nationally spoken language in Nigeria. In some ways, due to the diversity of tribes and dialect ...

The obvious explanation would be that when confronted with the overwhelming presence of English-speaking whites, the local people had to try their best to pick up bits of the language too so they ...