The language remix: an introduction to pidgins and creoles
Linguistics HQ by Dr Rebecca Mitchell
Episode notes
Could you survive an Arctic trading expedition armed with twenty words and your creativity? When is a pidgin fully fledged? And how can you accidentally invent a language? Tune into today's episode to find out!
Keywords
linguisticscommunicationcodeswitchingsociolinguisticslanguageafrican languagescreolesevolutionbilingualism