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Creole
A pidgin that has become grammaticalized by children who now speak it as their native language, or as one of their native languages (in the case of multilingualism). (sociolinguistics)
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:49AM
Creolist Hypothesis
The hypothesis that varieties of English spoken by Black Americans are descended from the English-based creoles spoken by slaves (and turn from the English-based pidgins spoken by West Africans, which married English lexemes to some degree with African grammars). (sociolinguistics)
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