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pidgin
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[ noun ] (linguistics) an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages
Used in print (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)Its citizens spoke all_of the world 's surviving tongues , plus a new one called Lingo , a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet_of_paper . Related terms |
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