Contact Language

Pidgin and Creole

Presented by: Emamul Haque

ID: 130120022 Green University of Bangladesh

PidginPidgin is a simplified language made

up of parts of two or more languages, used as a communication tool between speakers whose native languages are different.

Pidgin

According to Longman Dictionary:

Pidgin is a language which develop as a contact language when groups of people who speak different languages come into contact and communicate with one another, as when foreign traders communicate with the local population or workers on plantations or in factories communicate with one another or with their bosses.

Example of Pidgin

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.

Characteristics of pidgin

The process of creating a new variety out of two or more existing ones.

Trade languagePractical and immediate purpose of communicationIt has no native speakersspoken by millions as means of communicationSyntax and Phonology similar, morphology is left

out.

Creole

Creole is 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.

Example of Creole

Jamaican creole is mixed with English and African.

For example :

“instead of saying me they say mi.”

This sentence is written in Jamaican creole:

“Unu cya lissen to we mia say!”

English is:

“Can’t you listen to what I'm saying!”

Characteristics of Creole

It has native speakers.Expansion of phonology.Speech becomes faster, 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.

Distributions of Pidgins and Creoles

Pidgins are distributed mainly in places with direct or easy access to the oceans. They are found mainly in the Caribbean and around the north and east coasts of South America and Africa .

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