Instead, they develop a complete language known as creole. While pidgins exist as second languages for adult speakers, if the children of those adults are exposed to a pidgin, they do not grow up speaking it. The reason we are discussion pidgins here is to explore the extraordinary drive towards language in human beings. Labrador Inuit Pidgin French was a pidgin heavily influenced by French and spoken in Labrador until the 1760s. Algonquian–Basque pidgin was used by Basque whalers and Algonquin communities the Gulf of Saint Lawrence up to the 1710s. Inuktitut-English Pidgin was used in Quebec and Labrador. Linguistic characteristics such as gender and number (singular and plural) are excludedĪs Canada has a long history of contact between various language communities, it has had a large share of pidgins developing over the centuries. To facilitate transactions between their communities, the Inuvialuit, or Mackenzie River Inuit, and the Indigenous Athabaskan speakers used an Inuit trade jargon.Syllables tend to be simple and often lack codas.They tend not to have complicated phrase structures.Pidgins usually have the following characteristics: It is built from the words and sounds from a number of languages with a limited core vocabulary. Pidgins are not native to any speech community. It is common when communities come together for trade and they are not considered complete languages. It usually develops when two or more groups have to develop a system of communication when a common language doesn’t exist. A pidgin language is a grammatically simplified communication method.
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