pidgin
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"To communicate, the Africans borrowed some vocabulary from the British and incorporated their own pronunciation and syntax to form a pidgin thing. Over the generations, it became perfected and developed structure and grammar."
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025
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
Sometimes called pidgin English, the language is widely used and understood across regions and ethnic groups in the nation of 200 million people, although most books and newspapers on sale in Nigeria are in English.
From Reuters • Jul. 14, 2021
The writing is in pidgin English and Spanish and Mandarin and then languages I have never seen.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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