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How To Use pidgin In A Sentence

• The staff was very friendly - went to a great deal of effort to understand our pidgin Japanese!
• Lexical items in pidgin languages tend to cover a wider semantic domain than in the base language.
• Theories of origin Various theories have been proposed to account for the origin of pidgin languages, and fall into three broad types: monogenetic, polygenetic, and universalist.
• New hybrid languages, such as Creoles and pidgins, have been formed as a result of the modifications in languages that have been in contact.
• The word for ` food 'may appear as dagadaga, derived from Australian ` tucker' and reduplicated in the pattern of an earlier general pidgin kaikai. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4
• There are French pidgins and Creoles in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Indian and Pacific oceans.
• I have 4 tabs in firefox, a pidgin window, the system monitor, compiz fusion, songbird and transmission open in ubuntu 9.04, and am currently using 457MB of 3. 2GB available. Install A Minimal Ubuntu Desktop | Lifehacker Australia
• This may or may not be tied into debate about the genesis of pidgins, with one school of thought claiming there was a single source (monogenesis) and one arguing that pidgins arose separately (polygenesis) (a second battle is over substrate, superstrate, or bio-program, a glossary to figure out the terminology is here) Languagehat.com: ANYONE FOR SALISHAN?
• On one level, the current album is an engaging aural travelogue of the Anglo-American power trio's Near and Far East tour (its title is more of the Police's pidgin-English wordplay, bastardising Zen, Jomo Kenyatta and monde, the French word for world). Zenyatta Mondatta
• The different groups speak their own languages, but the language spoken across ethnic lines is a form of pidgin English called Creole.