RAĐANJE JEZIKA
THE BIRTH OF LANGUAGES

Summary/Abstract: Pidgins, uncommon languages, are born in multilingual environment, among speakers with different mother tongues. This needful discourse was mostly held on plantations or in gold mines, between slaves and their masters or among slaves themselves, mixed deliberately in order to prevent any possibility of revolt. Pidgins are very poor languages, sentences are mainly imperative made only of one or two words. Getting first native speakers pidgins cede gradually their place to creole languages. Creoles, trying to satisfy all linguistic needs of own speakers, become richer in view of vocabulary and grammatical structures and more complex in view of morphology and syntax

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