Definition of pidgin in English:

pidgin

noun ˈpɪdʒɪnˈpɪdʒən

1often as modifier A grammatically simplified form of a language, typically English, Dutch, or Portuguese, some elements of which are taken from local languages, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.
混杂语，洋泾浜语
Example sentencesExamples
- Pidgins, especially early in their development, rely primarily on nouns and verbs.
- Only at a later stage in its development does the pidgin develop productive internal resources for expanding its lexicon.
- In diverse, stratified Hawaii, we all designate each other by race, using references that evolved from sugar plantation pidgin dating back to the late 1870 s.
- This varies from use as a first language through use as a second language, as a foreign language, as a component in a Creole or pidgin, right down to its use in fractured messages in airline terminals.
- This theory asserts a common origin for all European-based pidgins.
- At present, therefore, no single theory can adequately explain the origin of pidgin language.
- So far, none of the gang appeared to speak any English, but now he uttered a few words in a broken pidgin.
- Pinker and Jackendoff argue that modern language may have emerged from an ancient pidgin through evolutionary fine-tuning.
- A creole is a nativized pidgin, expanded in form and function to meet the communicative needs of a community of native speakers.
- On German plantations and wherever individuals speaking different languages met, a pidgin language referred to as Neo-Melanesian or Melanesian Pidgin developed.
- There is, however, some disagreement among scholars over the number of languages in sufficient contact to produce a pidgin.
- Although the plantation setting was crucial for the emergence of pidgins in both areas, in the Pacific laborers were recruited and indentured rather than slaves.
- Other investigators argue that only in cases where more than two languages are in contact do true pidgins spring up.
- The names given to pidgin languages by linguists refer to their location and their principal lexifier or base language: that is, the language from which they draw most of their vocabulary.
- One characteristic of pidgins is the lack of inflectional morphology.
- Some linguists classify the Gullah language, spoken in the North Carolina islands, as a pidgin that is based on West African syntax.
- The choir were the most involved group in the church as well as some school children from a local school - they had to learn Pidgin.
- Lexical items in pidgin languages tend to cover a wider semantic domain than in the base language.
- Such a language will be rootless and will evolve within decades into some kind of Pidgin.
- He could speak a smattering of Maori, or pidgin Maori, where the language is broken down and simplified, so he was given the job of interpreter.
- The ability of Pidgin to approach/approximate the intimate lives of Edgar and Katrina in the world of the novel is not privileged in school and is in fact penalized.
- They will create a new pidgin language that has a Spanish syntax, just as English is based on an Anglo-Saxon syntax.
- As we all know, our pidgin dialect lacks the elegance and grace of the Queen's English.
- Kriol is also a pidgin, but has evolved into a separate language with its own structures and methods of orthography.
- Another characteristic of pidgins is lexical impoverishment.
- The author's brief and unhelpful comments make it sound like a pidgin.
- On a discursive level, writers who utilize Taglish and Pidgin validate these languages as literary mediums of cultural expression.
- His academic specialty is language change and language contact, with a concentration on pidgin and Creole languages.
- For them, a pidgin is a marginal language which arises to fulfil certain restricted communicative functions among groups with no common language.
- The translation often arrives back in a kind of pidgin language, but people still understand.
- Creolization can take place at any point during the pidgin's life cycle, ranging from a jargon to an expanded pidgin.
- Pidgin, a mix of African languages and English, also is common throughout southern Nigeria.
- A pidgin adopts the vocabulary of the dominant language in the area, which is then grafted onto a local grammar.
- At times it almost sounds as though they're speaking some bizarre pidgin.
- We mess up the English language with ebonics, Spanglish, Yiddish, Tagalog, and pidgin.
- New hybrid languages, such as Creoles and pidgins, have been formed as a result of the modifications in languages that have been in contact.
Synonyms
language, dialect, patois, vernacular, mother tongue, native tongue, jargon, argot, cant, creole, lingua franca
1. 1.1
  another term for Tok Pisin
  Example sentencesExamples
  Melpa has over 60,000 speakers, and a portion of that population speaks Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language) as a second language.
  Now known as Tok Pisin(" talk pidgin "), Melanesian Pidgin is spoken throughout Papua New Guinea.
  Unlike many ethnographers of Papua New Guinea societies who worked in Pidgin, Margaret worked in the vernacular.
  Brenner also supported the use of pidgin in the classroom.
  Iatmul children and many adults are also fluent in Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language), one of the national languages of Papua New Guinea.
  Some Motu also speak Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language) and English.
  In Taiwan, it's Chinese; in Papua New Guinea, it's pidgin.
  Now known as Tok Pisin, Melanesian Pidgin is spoken throughout Papua New Guinea.
2. 1.2as modifier Denoting a simplified form of a language, especially as used by a non-native speaker.
  （尤指非母语使用者说的）洋泾浜语
  we exchanged greetings, communicating in pidgin Spanish
  我们用洋泾浜西班牙语互致问候。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I am worried that I will end up speaking a variant of pidgin English, because so few people at work understand proper English.
  He also admits that his pidgin English was a serious handicap.
  Hollywood westerns regularly compel Native American characters to stammer their thoughts in pidgin English, even when conversing among themselves.
  It was comical, I have managed with my pidgin English and Polish keep both parties happy.
  With hundreds of traditional languages, literacy levels are low, including in the third official language, Bislama, a form of pidgin English.
  After a meal of chicken and fries, I asked the waiter, in my pidgin Arabic, "Where is the disco?"
  It is as sophisticated as pidgin English can be.
  The staff was very friendly - went to a great deal of effort to understand our pidgin Japanese!
  Monica Ali tells Hasina's part of the story through her letters to her sister in pidgin Bengali, rendered into pidgin English.
  Many residents understand and/or speak a pidgin English, which has become a lingua franca in the west-central Pacific.
  Yiddish is considered a combination of Hebrew and German - a sort of pidgin language.
  Why do we spend six years learning French in schools to emerge in adulthood with pidgin Franglais?
  They would sit around the table at night playing cards, nattering away in Italian and Anglo-Italian " pidgin ".
  A few of the authors transliterated carelessly, even incorrectly, into a sort of pidgin German.
  They will speak pidgin science much as they now speak pidgin French.
  Her ridiculous pidgin English dialogue made her seem like a complete fool.
  The peddler approaches the narrator adopting a pidgin English.
  No matter that Pa's knowledge of Japanese was confined to mostly pidgin from the Occupation a little over a decade earlier.
  However, the masses of the people prefer pidgin (popular) French, called Dioula.
  I have heard well-meaning Bengalis complain that Vilayat Khan only spoke pidgin Bengali despite having spent a good part of his life in Kolkata.

Origin

Late 19th century: Chinese alteration of English business.

A pidgin is nothing to do with a pigeon, but is a simplified form of a language used for communication between people not sharing a language. It originally represented a Chinese pronunciation of the English word business, and with the meanings ‘business, occupation, or affair’ became part of the simple language used between European and Chinese traders from the 1820s. By the 1850s people were also using pidgin to describe the language itself, especially in the fuller form pidgin English.

Rhymes

pigeon, smidgen, wigeon

Definition of pidgin in US English:

pidgin

nounˈpijənˈpɪdʒən

1often as modifier A grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language. Pidgins have a limited vocabulary, some elements of which are taken from local languages, and are not native languages, but arise out of language contact between speakers of other languages.
混杂语，洋泾浜语
Compare with Creole (sense 2 of the noun)
Example sentencesExamples
- Pidgins, especially early in their development, rely primarily on nouns and verbs.
- So far, none of the gang appeared to speak any English, but now he uttered a few words in a broken pidgin.
- At times it almost sounds as though they're speaking some bizarre pidgin.
- A pidgin adopts the vocabulary of the dominant language in the area, which is then grafted onto a local grammar.
- Creolization can take place at any point during the pidgin's life cycle, ranging from a jargon to an expanded pidgin.
- At present, therefore, no single theory can adequately explain the origin of pidgin language.
- His academic specialty is language change and language contact, with a concentration on pidgin and Creole languages.
- Lexical items in pidgin languages tend to cover a wider semantic domain than in the base language.
- They will create a new pidgin language that has a Spanish syntax, just as English is based on an Anglo-Saxon syntax.
- The names given to pidgin languages by linguists refer to their location and their principal lexifier or base language: that is, the language from which they draw most of their vocabulary.
- In diverse, stratified Hawaii, we all designate each other by race, using references that evolved from sugar plantation pidgin dating back to the late 1870 s.
- Kriol is also a pidgin, but has evolved into a separate language with its own structures and methods of orthography.
- Pidgin, a mix of African languages and English, also is common throughout southern Nigeria.
- New hybrid languages, such as Creoles and pidgins, have been formed as a result of the modifications in languages that have been in contact.
- We mess up the English language with ebonics, Spanglish, Yiddish, Tagalog, and pidgin.
- The translation often arrives back in a kind of pidgin language, but people still understand.
- For them, a pidgin is a marginal language which arises to fulfil certain restricted communicative functions among groups with no common language.
- As we all know, our pidgin dialect lacks the elegance and grace of the Queen's English.
- One characteristic of pidgins is the lack of inflectional morphology.
- On German plantations and wherever individuals speaking different languages met, a pidgin language referred to as Neo-Melanesian or Melanesian Pidgin developed.
- Another characteristic of pidgins is lexical impoverishment.
- Pinker and Jackendoff argue that modern language may have emerged from an ancient pidgin through evolutionary fine-tuning.
- Such a language will be rootless and will evolve within decades into some kind of Pidgin.
- A creole is a nativized pidgin, expanded in form and function to meet the communicative needs of a community of native speakers.
- The author's brief and unhelpful comments make it sound like a pidgin.
- He could speak a smattering of Maori, or pidgin Maori, where the language is broken down and simplified, so he was given the job of interpreter.
- On a discursive level, writers who utilize Taglish and Pidgin validate these languages as literary mediums of cultural expression.
- There is, however, some disagreement among scholars over the number of languages in sufficient contact to produce a pidgin.
- This theory asserts a common origin for all European-based pidgins.
- The ability of Pidgin to approach/approximate the intimate lives of Edgar and Katrina in the world of the novel is not privileged in school and is in fact penalized.
- Only at a later stage in its development does the pidgin develop productive internal resources for expanding its lexicon.
- Other investigators argue that only in cases where more than two languages are in contact do true pidgins spring up.
- The choir were the most involved group in the church as well as some school children from a local school - they had to learn Pidgin.
- Although the plantation setting was crucial for the emergence of pidgins in both areas, in the Pacific laborers were recruited and indentured rather than slaves.
- Some linguists classify the Gullah language, spoken in the North Carolina islands, as a pidgin that is based on West African syntax.
- This varies from use as a first language through use as a second language, as a foreign language, as a component in a Creole or pidgin, right down to its use in fractured messages in airline terminals.
Synonyms
language, dialect, patois, vernacular, mother tongue, native tongue, jargon, argot, cant, creole, lingua franca
1. 1.1
  another term for Tok Pisin
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unlike many ethnographers of Papua New Guinea societies who worked in Pidgin, Margaret worked in the vernacular.
  Now known as Tok Pisin(" talk pidgin "), Melanesian Pidgin is spoken throughout Papua New Guinea.
  Brenner also supported the use of pidgin in the classroom.
  Now known as Tok Pisin, Melanesian Pidgin is spoken throughout Papua New Guinea.
  Iatmul children and many adults are also fluent in Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language), one of the national languages of Papua New Guinea.
  Melpa has over 60,000 speakers, and a portion of that population speaks Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language) as a second language.
  In Taiwan, it's Chinese; in Papua New Guinea, it's pidgin.
  Some Motu also speak Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language) and English.
2. 1.2as modifier Denoting a simplified form of a language, especially as used by a nonnative speaker.
  （尤指非母语使用者说的）洋泾浜语
  we exchanged greetings, communicating in pidgin Spanish
  我们用洋泾浜西班牙语互致问候。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Why do we spend six years learning French in schools to emerge in adulthood with pidgin Franglais?
  The staff was very friendly - went to a great deal of effort to understand our pidgin Japanese!
  Many residents understand and/or speak a pidgin English, which has become a lingua franca in the west-central Pacific.
  Her ridiculous pidgin English dialogue made her seem like a complete fool.
  With hundreds of traditional languages, literacy levels are low, including in the third official language, Bislama, a form of pidgin English.
  I have heard well-meaning Bengalis complain that Vilayat Khan only spoke pidgin Bengali despite having spent a good part of his life in Kolkata.
  I am worried that I will end up speaking a variant of pidgin English, because so few people at work understand proper English.
  Hollywood westerns regularly compel Native American characters to stammer their thoughts in pidgin English, even when conversing among themselves.
  However, the masses of the people prefer pidgin (popular) French, called Dioula.
  Monica Ali tells Hasina's part of the story through her letters to her sister in pidgin Bengali, rendered into pidgin English.
  No matter that Pa's knowledge of Japanese was confined to mostly pidgin from the Occupation a little over a decade earlier.
  After a meal of chicken and fries, I asked the waiter, in my pidgin Arabic, "Where is the disco?"
  It was comical, I have managed with my pidgin English and Polish keep both parties happy.
  The peddler approaches the narrator adopting a pidgin English.
  They will speak pidgin science much as they now speak pidgin French.
  A few of the authors transliterated carelessly, even incorrectly, into a sort of pidgin German.
  He also admits that his pidgin English was a serious handicap.
  They would sit around the table at night playing cards, nattering away in Italian and Anglo-Italian " pidgin ".
  It is as sophisticated as pidgin English can be.
  Yiddish is considered a combination of Hebrew and German - a sort of pidgin language.

Origin

Late 19th century: Chinese alteration of English business.

单词	pidgin
释义	Definition of pidgin in English: pidgin noun ˈpɪdʒɪnˈpɪdʒən 1often as modifier A grammatically simplified form of a language, typically English, Dutch, or Portuguese, some elements of which are taken from local languages, used for communication between people not sharing a common language. 混杂语，洋泾浜语 Example sentencesExamples Pidgins, especially early in their development, rely primarily on nouns and verbs. Only at a later stage in its development does the pidgin develop productive internal resources for expanding its lexicon. In diverse, stratified Hawaii, we all designate each other by race, using references that evolved from sugar plantation pidgin dating back to the late 1870 s. This varies from use as a first language through use as a second language, as a foreign language, as a component in a Creole or pidgin, right down to its use in fractured messages in airline terminals. This theory asserts a common origin for all European-based pidgins. At present, therefore, no single theory can adequately explain the origin of pidgin language. So far, none of the gang appeared to speak any English, but now he uttered a few words in a broken pidgin. Pinker and Jackendoff argue that modern language may have emerged from an ancient pidgin through evolutionary fine-tuning. A creole is a nativized pidgin, expanded in form and function to meet the communicative needs of a community of native speakers. On German plantations and wherever individuals speaking different languages met, a pidgin language referred to as Neo-Melanesian or Melanesian Pidgin developed. There is, however, some disagreement among scholars over the number of languages in sufficient contact to produce a pidgin. Although the plantation setting was crucial for the emergence of pidgins in both areas, in the Pacific laborers were recruited and indentured rather than slaves. Other investigators argue that only in cases where more than two languages are in contact do true pidgins spring up. The names given to pidgin languages by linguists refer to their location and their principal lexifier or base language: that is, the language from which they draw most of their vocabulary. One characteristic of pidgins is the lack of inflectional morphology. Some linguists classify the Gullah language, spoken in the North Carolina islands, as a pidgin that is based on West African syntax. The choir were the most involved group in the church as well as some school children from a local school - they had to learn Pidgin. Lexical items in pidgin languages tend to cover a wider semantic domain than in the base language. Such a language will be rootless and will evolve within decades into some kind of Pidgin. He could speak a smattering of Maori, or pidgin Maori, where the language is broken down and simplified, so he was given the job of interpreter. The ability of Pidgin to approach/approximate the intimate lives of Edgar and Katrina in the world of the novel is not privileged in school and is in fact penalized. They will create a new pidgin language that has a Spanish syntax, just as English is based on an Anglo-Saxon syntax. As we all know, our pidgin dialect lacks the elegance and grace of the Queen's English. Kriol is also a pidgin, but has evolved into a separate language with its own structures and methods of orthography. Another characteristic of pidgins is lexical impoverishment. The author's brief and unhelpful comments make it sound like a pidgin. On a discursive level, writers who utilize Taglish and Pidgin validate these languages as literary mediums of cultural expression. His academic specialty is language change and language contact, with a concentration on pidgin and Creole languages. For them, a pidgin is a marginal language which arises to fulfil certain restricted communicative functions among groups with no common language. The translation often arrives back in a kind of pidgin language, but people still understand. Creolization can take place at any point during the pidgin's life cycle, ranging from a jargon to an expanded pidgin. Pidgin, a mix of African languages and English, also is common throughout southern Nigeria. A pidgin adopts the vocabulary of the dominant language in the area, which is then grafted onto a local grammar. At times it almost sounds as though they're speaking some bizarre pidgin. We mess up the English language with ebonics, Spanglish, Yiddish, Tagalog, and pidgin. New hybrid languages, such as Creoles and pidgins, have been formed as a result of the modifications in languages that have been in contact. Synonyms language, dialect, patois, vernacular, mother tongue, native tongue, jargon, argot, cant, creole, lingua franca 1.1 another term for Tok Pisin Example sentencesExamples Melpa has over 60,000 speakers, and a portion of that population speaks Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language) as a second language. Now known as Tok Pisin(" talk pidgin "), Melanesian Pidgin is spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. Unlike many ethnographers of Papua New Guinea societies who worked in Pidgin, Margaret worked in the vernacular. Brenner also supported the use of pidgin in the classroom. Iatmul children and many adults are also fluent in Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language), one of the national languages of Papua New Guinea. Some Motu also speak Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language) and English. In Taiwan, it's Chinese; in Papua New Guinea, it's pidgin. Now known as Tok Pisin, Melanesian Pidgin is spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. 1.2as modifier Denoting a simplified form of a language, especially as used by a non-native speaker. （尤指非母语使用者说的）洋泾浜语 we exchanged greetings, communicating in pidgin Spanish 我们用洋泾浜西班牙语互致问候。 Example sentencesExamples I am worried that I will end up speaking a variant of pidgin English, because so few people at work understand proper English. He also admits that his pidgin English was a serious handicap. Hollywood westerns regularly compel Native American characters to stammer their thoughts in pidgin English, even when conversing among themselves. It was comical, I have managed with my pidgin English and Polish keep both parties happy. With hundreds of traditional languages, literacy levels are low, including in the third official language, Bislama, a form of pidgin English. After a meal of chicken and fries, I asked the waiter, in my pidgin Arabic, "Where is the disco?" It is as sophisticated as pidgin English can be. The staff was very friendly - went to a great deal of effort to understand our pidgin Japanese! Monica Ali tells Hasina's part of the story through her letters to her sister in pidgin Bengali, rendered into pidgin English. Many residents understand and/or speak a pidgin English, which has become a lingua franca in the west-central Pacific. Yiddish is considered a combination of Hebrew and German - a sort of pidgin language. Why do we spend six years learning French in schools to emerge in adulthood with pidgin Franglais? They would sit around the table at night playing cards, nattering away in Italian and Anglo-Italian " pidgin ". A few of the authors transliterated carelessly, even incorrectly, into a sort of pidgin German. They will speak pidgin science much as they now speak pidgin French. Her ridiculous pidgin English dialogue made her seem like a complete fool. The peddler approaches the narrator adopting a pidgin English. No matter that Pa's knowledge of Japanese was confined to mostly pidgin from the Occupation a little over a decade earlier. However, the masses of the people prefer pidgin (popular) French, called Dioula. I have heard well-meaning Bengalis complain that Vilayat Khan only spoke pidgin Bengali despite having spent a good part of his life in Kolkata. Origin Late 19th century: Chinese alteration of English business. A pidgin is nothing to do with a pigeon, but is a simplified form of a language used for communication between people not sharing a language. It originally represented a Chinese pronunciation of the English word business, and with the meanings ‘business, occupation, or affair’ became part of the simple language used between European and Chinese traders from the 1820s. By the 1850s people were also using pidgin to describe the language itself, especially in the fuller form pidgin English. Rhymes pigeon, smidgen, wigeon Definition of pidgin in US English: pidgin nounˈpijənˈpɪdʒən 1often as modifier A grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language. Pidgins have a limited vocabulary, some elements of which are taken from local languages, and are not native languages, but arise out of language contact between speakers of other languages. 混杂语，洋泾浜语 Compare with Creole (sense 2 of the noun) Example sentencesExamples Pidgins, especially early in their development, rely primarily on nouns and verbs. So far, none of the gang appeared to speak any English, but now he uttered a few words in a broken pidgin. At times it almost sounds as though they're speaking some bizarre pidgin. A pidgin adopts the vocabulary of the dominant language in the area, which is then grafted onto a local grammar. Creolization can take place at any point during the pidgin's life cycle, ranging from a jargon to an expanded pidgin. At present, therefore, no single theory can adequately explain the origin of pidgin language. His academic specialty is language change and language contact, with a concentration on pidgin and Creole languages. Lexical items in pidgin languages tend to cover a wider semantic domain than in the base language. They will create a new pidgin language that has a Spanish syntax, just as English is based on an Anglo-Saxon syntax. The names given to pidgin languages by linguists refer to their location and their principal lexifier or base language: that is, the language from which they draw most of their vocabulary. In diverse, stratified Hawaii, we all designate each other by race, using references that evolved from sugar plantation pidgin dating back to the late 1870 s. Kriol is also a pidgin, but has evolved into a separate language with its own structures and methods of orthography. Pidgin, a mix of African languages and English, also is common throughout southern Nigeria. New hybrid languages, such as Creoles and pidgins, have been formed as a result of the modifications in languages that have been in contact. We mess up the English language with ebonics, Spanglish, Yiddish, Tagalog, and pidgin. The translation often arrives back in a kind of pidgin language, but people still understand. For them, a pidgin is a marginal language which arises to fulfil certain restricted communicative functions among groups with no common language. As we all know, our pidgin dialect lacks the elegance and grace of the Queen's English. One characteristic of pidgins is the lack of inflectional morphology. On German plantations and wherever individuals speaking different languages met, a pidgin language referred to as Neo-Melanesian or Melanesian Pidgin developed. Another characteristic of pidgins is lexical impoverishment. Pinker and Jackendoff argue that modern language may have emerged from an ancient pidgin through evolutionary fine-tuning. Such a language will be rootless and will evolve within decades into some kind of Pidgin. A creole is a nativized pidgin, expanded in form and function to meet the communicative needs of a community of native speakers. The author's brief and unhelpful comments make it sound like a pidgin. He could speak a smattering of Maori, or pidgin Maori, where the language is broken down and simplified, so he was given the job of interpreter. On a discursive level, writers who utilize Taglish and Pidgin validate these languages as literary mediums of cultural expression. There is, however, some disagreement among scholars over the number of languages in sufficient contact to produce a pidgin. This theory asserts a common origin for all European-based pidgins. The ability of Pidgin to approach/approximate the intimate lives of Edgar and Katrina in the world of the novel is not privileged in school and is in fact penalized. Only at a later stage in its development does the pidgin develop productive internal resources for expanding its lexicon. Other investigators argue that only in cases where more than two languages are in contact do true pidgins spring up. The choir were the most involved group in the church as well as some school children from a local school - they had to learn Pidgin. Although the plantation setting was crucial for the emergence of pidgins in both areas, in the Pacific laborers were recruited and indentured rather than slaves. Some linguists classify the Gullah language, spoken in the North Carolina islands, as a pidgin that is based on West African syntax. This varies from use as a first language through use as a second language, as a foreign language, as a component in a Creole or pidgin, right down to its use in fractured messages in airline terminals. Synonyms language, dialect, patois, vernacular, mother tongue, native tongue, jargon, argot, cant, creole, lingua franca 1.1 another term for Tok Pisin Example sentencesExamples Unlike many ethnographers of Papua New Guinea societies who worked in Pidgin, Margaret worked in the vernacular. Now known as Tok Pisin(" talk pidgin "), Melanesian Pidgin is spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. Brenner also supported the use of pidgin in the classroom. Now known as Tok Pisin, Melanesian Pidgin is spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. Iatmul children and many adults are also fluent in Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language), one of the national languages of Papua New Guinea. Melpa has over 60,000 speakers, and a portion of that population speaks Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language) as a second language. In Taiwan, it's Chinese; in Papua New Guinea, it's pidgin. Some Motu also speak Tok Pisin (an English-based pidgin language) and English. 1.2as modifier Denoting a simplified form of a language, especially as used by a nonnative speaker. （尤指非母语使用者说的）洋泾浜语 we exchanged greetings, communicating in pidgin Spanish 我们用洋泾浜西班牙语互致问候。 Example sentencesExamples Why do we spend six years learning French in schools to emerge in adulthood with pidgin Franglais? The staff was very friendly - went to a great deal of effort to understand our pidgin Japanese! Many residents understand and/or speak a pidgin English, which has become a lingua franca in the west-central Pacific. Her ridiculous pidgin English dialogue made her seem like a complete fool. With hundreds of traditional languages, literacy levels are low, including in the third official language, Bislama, a form of pidgin English. I have heard well-meaning Bengalis complain that Vilayat Khan only spoke pidgin Bengali despite having spent a good part of his life in Kolkata. I am worried that I will end up speaking a variant of pidgin English, because so few people at work understand proper English. Hollywood westerns regularly compel Native American characters to stammer their thoughts in pidgin English, even when conversing among themselves. However, the masses of the people prefer pidgin (popular) French, called Dioula. Monica Ali tells Hasina's part of the story through her letters to her sister in pidgin Bengali, rendered into pidgin English. No matter that Pa's knowledge of Japanese was confined to mostly pidgin from the Occupation a little over a decade earlier. After a meal of chicken and fries, I asked the waiter, in my pidgin Arabic, "Where is the disco?" It was comical, I have managed with my pidgin English and Polish keep both parties happy. The peddler approaches the narrator adopting a pidgin English. They will speak pidgin science much as they now speak pidgin French. A few of the authors transliterated carelessly, even incorrectly, into a sort of pidgin German. He also admits that his pidgin English was a serious handicap. They would sit around the table at night playing cards, nattering away in Italian and Anglo-Italian " pidgin ". It is as sophisticated as pidgin English can be. Yiddish is considered a combination of Hebrew and German - a sort of pidgin language. Origin Late 19th century: Chinese alteration of English business.
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