This document discusses pidgin and creole languages. It defines pidgin as a simplified language that develops for communication between groups that speak different languages. Pidgins have no native speakers and basic grammar. Creoles evolve from pidgins and become the native language of a community, with more complex grammar and phonology. Examples provided are Tok Pisin, Hawai'i Creole English, and Jamaican Creole. Pidgins are used for trade and practical communication while creoles take on properties of full languages.

1. Contact Language
Pidgin and
Creole
Presented by:
Emamul Haque
ID: 130120022
Green University of Bangladesh

2. Pidgin
Pidgin 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Characteristics of pidgin
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
spoken by millions as means of communication
Syntax and Phonology similar, morphology is left out.

6. 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.

7. 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!”

8. 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.

9. 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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