pidgin

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

The dialogue in both sections, sprinkled like parsley with pidgin Yiddish and Hebrew prayer, has a secondhand aura that is also unconvincing.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

There are versions in local pidgin English, Hausa, Kanuri and Fulani.

From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2022

Bowen and Tui Asau all have ties to Hawaii, lending authenticity to the book’s polyglot melting-pot gradations of dialect, anchored by Hilo-born actress Kim’s voicing of the matriarch Malia’s warm, flowing pidgin.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2020

The captain spoke pidgin Italian for my doubtful benefit, in order that I might understand perfectly, that nothing should be lost.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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