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Pidgin
(redirected from trade language)

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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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The word memaloose means "dead" in Chinook jargon, the old Indian trade language of the Northwest.
quot; Great Britain held colonies on every continent, and the trade language in those areas was English.
One thinks of "pidgin English" that developed in the Far East in the 17th century as a trade language.
 
 
 
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