pidgin
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Trying to free herself, she began to write in Hawaiian pidgin, a language she both grew up surrounded by and was told by others — including her mother — to avoid out in the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
Wale and other lawmakers spoke at length, using a mixture of English, the official language, and the commonly spoken Melanesian pidgin.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
“It is time that this suffering ends for us all. This is what brought me here,” he said in pidgin English.
From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2021
But the effect is as vivid as the sassy, strong-willed narrator’s pidgin.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2020
I tapped an artesian well of good feeling and made a small speech in my pidgin type of French.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
His father, Derek Bickerton, an influential linguist specializing in pidgins and creoles, had a Ph.D. from Cambridge University but called himself a “card-carrying autodidact.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2022
It’s not all bad; I’ve got a whole new suite of creoles and pidgins that I’m enjoying, plus they’ve given me contractions.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2018
The traditional idea that creoles come from pidgins may be fascinating, but it risks seeming condescending—by positing that creoles have simpler grammars as a result.
From Economist ● Feb. 1, 2018
There were also, among others, 1,440 speakers of Somali and 370 of "Creoles and pidgins."
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2012
When you and your friends come flyin' in at first-floor windows like pidgins, Mr. Ventimore, you must expect some notice to be took.
From The Brass Bottle A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts by F. Anstey
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