The language remix: an introducti...

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