Directory of Pidgins and Creoles Resources

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Pidgins are languages that occur when people from two different languages come into contact and form a simplified hybrid language. If a pidgin language lasts long enough, eventually people are born who use that language as their first language; it then becomes known as a creole. Languages are organized in this category by acrolect (i.e., the contact language with the higher prestige). The acrolect is often European, reflecting the history of colonization, but this is not always the case.

Subcategories

• Chinook Based
• Dutch Based
• English Based
• French Based
• Haitian Creole
• Malay Based
• Mixed
• Niger-Kordofanian Based
• Portuguese Based
• Spanish Based

Resources in This Category

• CC: Pidgin Carriers

  http://www.kith.org/logos/words/upper2/CCreole.html
  Introductory article on the topic of pidgin and creole languages.

• Creole Language

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language
  A definition of the term creole.

• Creole Romance Numerals

  http://members.tripod.com/~rjschellen/CreoleRomNums.htm
  Tables of the names of numerals in various Romance-Language-based creoles.

• Creolization is a Social, Not a Structural, Process

  http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene/mufw_creo.html
  Paper by Salikoko S. Mufwene presented at the International Symposium on "Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages".

• Ditransitive constructions : Creole Languages in a Cross-linguistic Perspective – Susanne Michaelis et Martin Haspelmath

  http://www.creolica.net/michaelis.pdf
  A comparison transitive verbs in creole and pidgin languages by Susanne Michaelis and Martin Haspelmath.

• Germanic Creole Numerals

  http://members.tripod.com/~rjschellen/GermCreolesNums.htm
  Tables of the names of numerals in various Germanic-Language-based creoles.

• Linguist List 7.1721: Creolistics

  http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-1721.html
  A discussion of whether Afrikaans and Yiddish are creole or creoloid.

• Pidgin

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin
  A definition of the term pidgin.

• Pidgin and Creole Languages

  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/messeas/handouts/pjcreol/node1.html
  Notes for a course in pidgin and creole languages. Discusses theories of pidginization, creolization and language contact.

• Pidgins, Creoles, and Constructed Languages

  http://www.zompist.com/last.htm
  Number words in a variety of pidgins, creoles, and constructed languages.

• Psycholinguistics: Pidgin and Creole languages

  http://www.hevanet.com/alexwest/pidgin.html
  An introduction to pidgins and creoles.

• Review of John Holm on Pidgins and Creoles

  http://dannyreviews.com/h/Pidgins_Creoles.html
  A brief review of John Holm's "An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles".

• Unserdeutsch Language

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unserdeutsch_language
  A brief description of Unserdeutch, a German-based pidgin spoken in what is now Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.

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