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Pidgins often arise in
wartime
or
sporadic
trade situations as a
lingua franca
for the necessary communication. There is frequently a power differential involved.
In more
long-term
situations where groups speak different languages, such as
colonization
/
occupation
or
slavery
, a pidgin may
evolve
into a
creole
, which is considered a language unto itself.
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A mixed
language
, or
jargon
, incorporating the
vocabulary
of one or more
language
s with a very simplified form of
grammatical
system of one of these and not used as the main
language
of any of its speakers.
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Pidgins usually grow up in response to an
economic need
between either
inhabitants
of neighboring language-speaking regions that come in
intimate contact
, or between
European
traders and
African
/
American
/
Asian
culture
s.
Pidgins
tend to take the easiest features of both languages and use them, rejecting any
redundancy
. Many pidgins exist such as
West African
language/
English
pidgins,
French
/Asian pidgins, and even a pidgin which has become an official language of
Papua New Guinea
, called
Police Motu
. It derives this name from the fact that the Papuan police force consisted of draftees from all around the island, where a multitude of languages are spoken, and they all had to
communicate
somehow. When a pidgin begins to develop complex grammatical forms and redundancy (which is almost
universally
necessary in language), and most importantly, becomes the mother tongue of a people, it is then called a
creole
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