Pidgin and Creole, language varieties used even in the same tribe

1. PIDGIN
and
CREOLE
Riana Wieke Adiningtyas

2. Pidgin
a simplified language made up of parts of
two or more languages, used as a
communication tool between speakers
whose native languages are different.

3. Characteristics
The process of creating a new variety out of two (or
more) existing ones.
Trade language
Practical and immediate purpose of communication
It has no native speakers
Colonial
Syntax and Phonology similar, morphology is left out.

4. examples
• English and Tok Pisin
Leg belong you he-all-right gain
Your leg will get well again
• English and Hawai
What for Miss Willis laugh all time? Before
Fraulein cry all time.
Why does Miss Willis often laugh? Fraulein
used to always cry.
• Dutch and Malay
I gak mau tahu, you tangkap ni orang.

5. Creole
• a language that has evolved from the mixture
of two or more languages and has become
the first language of a group.
• It is a pidgin that has become the first
language of a new generation of speakers.

6. Characteristics
It has native speakers
It has no simple relationship to the usually
standardized language with which it is associated.
The speakers may feel that they speak something less
than normal languages

7. examples
• Papua New Guinea’s national language
• Guyana
• West Indian immigrants in Britain
• English of blacks in the United States
• Sranan Tongo in Suriname

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