Pidgin and Creole (Language Varieties)
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Pidgin languages are simplified languages created for communication between groups that speak different native languages. They have no native speakers and borrow parts of multiple languages, especially syntax, phonology, and vocabulary. Creole languages develop from pidgins but become the primary language for a community, with their own native speakers. Creoles are more complex than pidgins and have variations distinct from their source languages. Examples of pidgins include Tok Pisin and Hawai'i Creole English, while creoles include Sranan Tongo and varieties of English spoken by communities in the Caribbean and United States.
Pidgin and Creole (Language Varieties)
- 1. PIDGIN and CREOLE Riana Wieke Adiningtyas
- 2. Pidgin a simplified language made up of parts of two or more languages, used as a communication tool between speakers whose native languages are different.
- 3. Characteristics The process of creating a new variety out of two (or more) existing ones. Trade language Practical and immediate purpose of communication It has no native speakers Colonial Syntax and Phonology similar, morphology is left out.
- 4. examples • English and Tok Pisin Leg belong you he-all-right gain Your leg will get well again • English and Hawai What for Miss Willis laugh all time? Before Fraulein cry all time. Why does Miss Willis often laugh? Fraulein used to always cry. • Dutch and Malay I gak mau tahu, you tangkap ni orang.
- 5. Creole • a language that has evolved from the mixture of two or more languages and has become the first language of a group. • It is a pidgin that has become the first language of a new generation of speakers.
- 6. Characteristics It has native speakers It has no simple relationship to the usually standardized language with which it is associated. The speakers may feel that they speak something less than normal languages
- 7. examples • Papua New Guinea’s national language • Guyana • West Indian immigrants in Britain • English of blacks in the United States • Sranan Tongo in Suriname
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