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Pidgin
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Pidgin
A language that is no one’s native language, but is used as an auxiliary or supplemental language between 2 or more mutually unintelligible speech communities


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This would presuppose that, in the contact situation between the Northumbrians, Mercians and the Viking settlers, Old English and Old Norse were so different as to require first pidginization and then creolization in order to enable efficient communication.
Schumann, Second Language Acquisition: The Pidginization Hypothesis, in SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: A BOOK OF READINGS 256, 256-71 (Evelyn Marcussen Hatch ed.
 
 
 
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